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

From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 16733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16733: messed up unicode chars in package description
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:39:28 +0100

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Stefan <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> And IIUC we already have a(nother) fix
> for the glaring bug installed in emacs-24.

Yes. The current fix disregards HTTP headers and uses the highest
priority coding system that can decode the received text. It is not
impossible to imagine cases where that would fail, but given that most
ELPA entries are likely to be ASCII or UTF-8, I'm not really worried.

    J
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