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From:	"Thomas Mueller" <tmueller AT bluegrass DOT net>
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Subject:	GNU Emacs DOS (DJGPP) port converts upper-ASCII characters to ASCII 127
Date:	5 Feb 2002 11:56:58 GMT
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I tried viewing and editing a big text file, just under 1 MB, using the DOS
(DJGPP) port of GNU Emacs.  It consists of many concatenated email messages
including heise online Newsletter, which is in German, and I noticed the upper
ASCII characters, or some of them, those with umlauts, showed as ASCII 127.
I tried to remove a bit of junk, and subsequently saved.  I noticed the saved
file had upper ASCII characters converted to ASCII 127, verified with grep and
DR-DOS 7.03 EDIT.
grep -n "düsteren" mbox851.mes
showed nothing, running from the directory where that file is, while
grep -n "dsteren" mbox851.mes
(with ASCII 127 between d and s)
actually went to the appropriate line.

This grep came from the DJGPP section of Simtel.

This is weird.  I thought it was only a display flaw.  Fortunately I was able
to recover from backup.

Is this a known bug?  vim 6 is safer, and now I have that installed on Linux
(Slackware 8) too.  I'll have to see if Emacs does that on Linux too, with a
file backup on hand, or if that's a DOS-specific bug.

Now I guess I have the motivation to download the new SETEDIT?

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