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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Message #21 received at 16733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 16733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16733: messed up unicode chars in package description
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:16:42 -0400

Juanma Barranquero wrote:

> 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

GNU what?! ;)

> 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

I wonder if url.el has/should have a facility for fetching urls and
automatically decoding them according to the charset they claim to be
in?
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