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29.1; format-decode-buffer fails for de646 and duden

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: 64928 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64928: 29.1; format-decode-buffer fails for de646 and duden
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 16:46:53 +0300

> From: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:52:40 +0200
> 
> The following command results in an error:
> 
> M-x format-decode-buffer RET de646 RET
> Format decoding failed
> recode: Request `iso646-ge:latin1' is erroneous
> 
> The "duden" encoding does not work either:
> 
> M-x format-decode-buffer RET duden RET
> Format decoding failed
> /bin/bash: line 1: diac: command not found
> 
> A trivial patch is included below.
> 
> (Not sure if fixing this is even worth the effort. AFAICS Recode never
> recognised a charset "iso646-ge". The ISO 646 variants were added
> in 1993 with recode-3.3, and its label for the German variant was
> "iso646de" even back then. So nobody has reported this since almost
> 30 years.)

I see no harm in installing this on master.

Thanks.

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