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M-x list-packages -> blah elpa.gnu.org blah: "incomprehensible buffer"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 08:10:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 40923 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40923: M-x list-packages -> blah elpa.gnu.org blah: "incomprehensible buffer"
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:43:43 -0400

Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I also tried to run slight variants of the tests above with an emacs26
> compiled from the git repo with:
>
>   git checkout emacs-26.3
>   ./autogen.sh
>   ./configure
>   make
>
> and it also couldn't access ELPA if I ran it from my test user.

Does 26.3 still fail if you start from a fresh .emacs.d/ directory?  I
think there were some encoding related fixes made in package.el for
26.3, but they may not help with existing mis-encoded files.
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