X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: "Thomas Mueller" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: GNU Emacs DOS (DJGPP) port converts upper-ASCII characters to ASCII 127 Date: 5 Feb 2002 11:56:58 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: dial3-145.bluegrass.net (208.147.34.145) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1012910218 43139827 208.147.34.145 (16 [49635]) X-Mailer: NOS-BOX 2.05 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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?