Subject: bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:23:43 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:17:06 -0400
> 
> > The problem with that is that ediff-exec-process then uses raw-text to
> > read the output from Diff back into Emacs.
> 
> Yes, raw-text is wrong.  It should probably use undecided at least, or
> otherwise try to be more clever and use the encoding used by the
> source files.

There are 2 files involved in this, and each one can be in a different
encoding.  Thus, undecided is also not quite correct, since it will at
best most probably pick up at random one of the 2 encodings.