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24.4; Encoding problem in about-emacs

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Message #26 received at 18760 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ljung <lars <at> matholka.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18760 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18760: 24.4; Encoding problem in about-emacs
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:02:23 +0200

Den 2014-10-18 14:24, Eli Zaretskii skrev:
>> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 13:24:54 +0200
>> From: Lars Ljung <lars <at> matholka.se>
>> CC: 18760 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> I looked at it a bit and my guess is that the encoding is not
>> properly detected when extracting the title using (with-temp-buffer
>> (insert-file-contents ... when defining fancy-startup-text.
> 
> But how can this happen, when the tutorial states that it's encoded in
> UTF-8?
> 
> I just typed that form manually in a locale that also defaults to
> Latin-1, and I see no problem at all.
> 

My mistake. The fault is in fancy-about-text, not fancy-startup-text. I
didn't realise there are two similar texts.

The code for fancy-startup-text used to have the same problem but it was
fixed in revision 109165. The same fix could probably be used in
fancy-about-text.

/Lars

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