Treat batch stdout/stderr like standard display

Calls like (print FOO) could generate improperly encoded or
hard-to-read output if FOO contains characters outside the system
locale.  Fix this by treating batch stdout and stderr like
interactive standard display, when it comes to transliterating and
encoding characters (Bug#20545).
* doc/emacs/mule.texi (Communication Coding):
* doc/lispref/display.texi (Active Display Table):
* doc/lispref/nonascii.texi (Locales):
* etc/NEWS:
* src/coding.c (syms_of_coding):
* src/dispnew.c (syms_of_display):
Document this.
* src/print.c: Include disptab.h.
(printchar_to_stream): New function, with much of the guts of the
old Fexternal_debugging_output, except this one also uses the
standard display table.
(printchar, strout, Fexternal_debugging_output): Use it.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index d07057ef4b2..57e63b1f208 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -947,6 +947,12 @@ integers.
 ** New function `set-binary-mode' allows to switch a standard stream
 of the Emacs process to binary I/O mode.
 
+** In locales that cannot display curved quotes, ASCII approximations
+are installed in standard-display-table.
+
+** Standard output and error streams now transliterate characters via
+standard-display-table, and encode output using locale-coding-system.
+
 ** Miscellaneous name change
 
 For consistency with the usual Emacs spelling, the Lisp variable