GNU bug report logs - #1183
23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: kifer <at> cs.sunysb.edu, handa <at> m17n.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com,
        1183 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org,
        kifer <at> cs.stonybrook.edu
Subject: bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:23:43 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: kifer <at> cs.sunysb.edu,  handa <at> m17n.org,  drew.adams <at> oracle.com,  1183 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,  bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org,  kifer <at> cs.stonybrook.edu
> 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.

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