Subject: bug#16733: messed up unicode chars in package description

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:08:25 +0200

> From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:08:47 +0100
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> > (I wonder why doesn't Emacs simply DTRT though.)
> 
> Apparently, url-retrieve-synchronously returns a unibyte buffer.

Right, so we need to decode the buffer before displaying it.