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[w32] Bad signature from GNU ELPA for archive-contents

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Message #70 received at 35739 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: rcopley <at> gmail.com, 35739 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 08:10:41 -0400

>> There is, because the routine that extracts the "raw bytes" is url-insert
>> which (until my patch) also did the decoding according to the "charset"
>> specified in the HTTP headers returned by the server (if present).
>> IOW it didn't always return the raw bytes.
>
> Then how about an optional argument to disable 'charset' handling
> instead?  That'd be backward-compatible.

I think people have already enough trouble dealing with character
encodings that we shouldn't encourage them to put decoded text into
unibyte buffers (I don't even know where/if the semantics of this is
described somewhere in our manuals or code).

IOW, from where I stand, the change in behavior is just fixing
a long-standing bug.


        Stefan

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