Subject: Re: bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 22:18:14 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> Wait, the problematic text appears in the Ediff error buffer, right?
> So we should perhaps simply decode it?  Does evaluating the below in
> that buffer fixes the problem?
>
>   M-: (decode-coding-region (point-min) (point-max) 'undecided) RET

Yes.  So doing that (in the error buffer before displaying it) is
probably the right fix.

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