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28.0.60; Emacs Zip-Archive open inside image file does not display, just empty buffer

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: numbchild <at> gmail.com
Cc: 52480 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52480: 28.0.60; Emacs Zip-Archive open inside image file does not display, just empty buffer
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:34:08 +0200

> From: "Christopher M. Miles" <numbchild <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 22:24:00 +0800
> 
> I found that Emacs "Zip-Archive" `archive-mode' has problem on display zip archive file inside image
> files. When I press [Enter] on image file in the opened archive buffer, Emacs displays image file
> with "empty blank buffer". Not all .zip archive files has this problem. Two .zip file is can open
> some inside images, but not all. But still most .zip archive files open inside images are blank empty.
> 
> And I confirmed those .zip archives are fine. I uncompressed them in macOS and open inside image is fine.
> 
> I confirmed the problem with "emacs -q".

Could you perhaps post an example of such a problematic zip file with
images?  I tried to reproduce this on my system using a zip file I
created myself, and saw no such problems.

Thanks.

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