GNU bug report logs - #20231
25.0.50; package.el mangles non-ascii content in downloaded archive-contents data

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Steve Purcell <steve <at> sanityinc.com>

Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 20010

Found in versions 24.4, 25.0.50

Done: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
To: 20231 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Steve Purcell <steve <at> sanityinc.com>
Subject: bug#20231: 25.0.50; package.el mangles non-ascii content in downloaded archive-contents data 
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 19:30:21 +0000

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

[…]

 >> As insert-file-contents may imply a whole lot of additional
 >> processing beyond decoding UTF-8, I’d rather use an explicit
 >> decode-coding-region here

 > Can you explain why?  What additional processing can get in the way?

	One of the examples I can readily think of is enriched-decode,
	which will automatically be called should there be a
	‘Content-Type: text/enriched’ line near the top of the file
	being read (per format-alist.)

	I have no example at hand of how such processing may be
	triggered in practice, but avoiding it altogether seems to me
	like a saner approach.

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