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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 16733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16733: messed up unicode chars in package description
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:26:15 +0100

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> 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.

That would mean to manually parse the headers and/or duplicate part of
what url-insert / url-insert-file-contents do. In that case, I'd
prefer one of the other fixes.

   J
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