Re: url-retrieve and encoding

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 09:41:15PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 20:31:02 +0100
> > From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> > 
> > IIUC, url-retrieve (and its sinchronous friend) are the tools for
> > the job. They work nicely, but they leave me with a unibyte buffer
> > (confusingly, the line endings are just linefeeds: from the HTTP
> > specs I'd expected "\r\n")
> 
> (Maybe your Lisp program decoded the EOLs?)

Thanks, Eli

I posted "my" whole Lisp program in whole (it is basically just
`url-retrieve-synchronously'. But perhaps the source has no
CRs? At least, "curl -I" shows some. Next mystery :)

> > Is there a canonical way to "make the buffer be UTF-8?
> 
> Yes: decode-coding-region.

Ahhh -- thanks a bunch for this one! How could I have missed it.

> > (...) But that feels
> > a bit... gross:
> 
> Indeed.  Why didn't you try decoding to begin with?

Lack of knowledge it seems. My doc-fu let me down. Thanks
for setting me off in the right direction.

Cheers
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t

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