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| author |  David Aspinall <da@inf.ed.ac.uk> | 2004-06-11 17:01:37 +0000 |
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| committer | David Aspinall <da@inf.ed.ac.uk> | 2004-06-11 17:01:37 +0000 |
| commit | a09a095f540ae7701ac3d8709600dd16b7a1c690 (patch) | |
| tree | e4cb8a80748fe518811f1e1b06ba823ef167a6f9 /FAQ | |
| parent | fcf52a70a1f04fda5a1caadcfb43bde2e088aa4e (diff) | |
Expand that UTF 8 affects Suse 9.1
Diffstat (limited to 'FAQ')
| -rw-r--r-- | FAQ | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -10,11 +10,12 @@ Please also check the BUGS file. Q. Emacs appears to hang when the prover process is started. -A. This may be because of UTF-8 issues e.g in Red Hat 8.0/9/glibc 2.2 +A. Perhaps this because of UTF-8 in recent linuxes with glibc 2.2 or later + (e.g in Red Hat 8.0/9/Suse 9.1) - RedHat 8 and later has glibc 2.2 and UTF8 encoded output may be - turned on in default locale. Unfortunately Proof General relies on - 8-bit characters which are UTF8 prefixes in the output of proof + Glibc 2.2 and later may be enabled with UTF8 encoded output in your + default locale. Unfortunately Proof General relies on 8-bit + characters which are UTF8 prefixes in the output of proof assistants (inc Coq, Isabelle). These prefix characters are not flushed to stdout individually. As a workaround we must find a way to disable interpretation of UTF8 in the C libraries that Coq and @@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ A. This may be because of UTF-8 issues e.g in Red Hat 8.0/9/glibc 2.2 NB: a related issue is warnings from x-symbol: "Emacs language environment and system locale specify different encoding, I'll - assume `iso-8859-1'". This warning appears to be mainly harmless. + assume `iso-8859-1'". This warning appears to be mostly harmless. Notice that the variable `buffer-file-coding-system' may determine the format that files are saved in. |