GNU bug report logs - #16733
messed up unicode chars in package description

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 01:48:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 16733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16733: messed up unicode chars in package description
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:08:47 +0100

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> If it works, sounds fine.

Yes, it does.

> (I wonder why doesn't Emacs simply DTRT though.)

Apparently, url-retrieve-synchronously returns a unibyte buffer.

(multibyte-string-p (with-current-buffer
                        (url-retrieve-synchronously "http://es.gnu.org")
                      (buffer-string)))

=> nil

and yet the homepage of GNU España contains non-ASCII chars and its
metadata says it is encoded in utf-8:

C:\> lwp-request -m HEAD http://es.gnu.org
200 OK
[...]
Content-Language: es
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
[...]
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