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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 16733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16733: messed up unicode chars in package description
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:21:45 +0200

> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 06:12:24 +0100
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 16733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 1) Leave it as it is now, with
> detect-coding-string/decode-coding-string (or perhaps
> decode-coding-(inserted-)region).

This is suboptimal when the URL already tells its charset.  In that
case, you should use the information; you should fall back to
detect-coding-string only if that information is not available.
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