GNU bug report logs - #49648
28.0.50; Installing a package: Garbage in the popup

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: haj <at> posteo.de (Harald Jörg)

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:58:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 28.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: haj <at> posteo.de (Harald Jörg)
Cc: 49648 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49648: 28.0.50; Installing a package: Garbage in the popup
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:00:51 +0300

> From: haj <at> posteo.de (Harald Jörg)
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:57:23 +0000
> 
> >From emacs -Q:
> 
> 1) M-x list-packages
> 2) select any package (in my case: eglot)
> 3) click "install"
> 
> The popup "Install package eglot-1.7" has garbage characters before
> "eglot" and after "1.7".  Screenshot attached.

Looks like some encoding problem: those garbled characters are
supposed to be curly quotes.  That's what I see here.  Maybe this is
specific to the Lucid builds?

Does anyone else see this problem?
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