From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ljung <lars@matholka.se>
Cc: 18760@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18760: 24.4; Encoding problem in about-emacs
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:57:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83iojhedsd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54425EE2.2020707@matholka.se>
> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:36:50 +0200
> From: Lars Ljung <lars@matholka.se>
> CC: 18760@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Den 2014-10-18 14:24, Eli Zaretskii skrev:
> >> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 13:24:54 +0200
> >> From: Lars Ljung <lars@matholka.se>
> >> CC: 18760@debbugs.gnu.org
> >>
> >> I looked at it a bit and my guess is that the encoding is not
> >> properly detected when extracting the title using (with-temp-buffer
> >> (insert-file-contents ... when defining fancy-startup-text.
> >
> > But how can this happen, when the tutorial states that it's encoded in
> > UTF-8?
> >
> > I just typed that form manually in a locale that also defaults to
> > Latin-1, and I see no problem at all.
> >
>
> Perhaps since the encoding is specified at the end of the file but only
> the first 256 bytes are read when extracting the title?
Where do you see that we only read the first 256 bytes?
Oh, you mean fancy-about-text? I thought you were talking about
fancy-startup-text, where we read the entire file.
Yes, you are right, that's the bug. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-18 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-18 9:54 bug#18760: 24.4; Encoding problem in about-emacs Lars Ljung
2014-10-18 11:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-18 11:24 ` Lars Ljung
2014-10-18 12:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-18 12:36 ` Lars Ljung
2014-10-18 12:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-10-18 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-18 17:26 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-18 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-18 19:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-23 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-18 13:02 ` Lars Ljung
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