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

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Message #73 received at 35739 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
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 17:15:33 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: rcopley <at> gmail.com,  35739 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  npostavs <at> gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 08:10:41 -0400
> 
> > 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.

I guess we are standing on different places, then.  I'd like us not to
change that behavior by default.

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