From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: sebastian_rose@gmx.de, 5050@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 22:36:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z9dt5p0.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eeo1jca2.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 20 Aug 2020 22:24:53 +0200")
On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 22:24:53 +0200 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@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.
FTR, I confirm that this fix results in the correct display of the
German error message. So I think the bug can be closed, unless we want
to wait for additional confirmation from the OP.
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-20 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-26 20:13 bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages Sebastian Rose
2009-11-27 16:01 ` Kevin Rodgers
2020-08-20 18:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 18:53 ` Stephen Berman
2020-08-20 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-20 19:35 ` Stephen Berman
2020-08-20 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-20 19:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 19:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-20 20:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 20:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-20 20:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 20:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 20:36 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2020-08-21 11:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 20:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 19:51 ` Stephen Berman
2020-08-20 20:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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