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

From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 02:34:58 +0100

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Scroll down the description past the part that says "M-x aa2u RET".
> The buffer is completely messed up at this point, showing raw
> characters instead of the unicode box that you see if you visit the raw
> source file for the package. See attached image.

This seems enough.

=== modified file 'lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el'
--- lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el  2014-03-14 20:55:40 +0000
+++ lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el  2014-03-19 01:31:28 +0000
@@ -1528,7 +1528,8 @@
                        (let ((version-control 'never)
                              (require-final-newline t))
                          (save-buffer))
-                       (setq readme-string (buffer-string))
+                       (setq readme-string (decode-coding-string
+                                            (buffer-string) 'prefer-utf-8 t))
                        t))
                 (error nil))
               (insert readme-string))