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23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: sebastian_rose <at> gmx.de, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 5050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters
 in messages
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 22:24:53 +0200

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

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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.

Yup, I've found the right place to do the decoding, and I've pushed the
fix to Emacs 28.

Thanks everybody for testing and advice. 

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