From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 23:14:36 +0300 Message-ID: <83pn7laxcj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ljhtnixd.fsf@gmx.de> <87o8n5macz.fsf@gnus.org> <87imddtahz.fsf@gmx.net> <87blj5ksso.fsf@gnus.org> <87a6ypt7sf.fsf@gmx.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11517"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, sebastian_rose@gmx.de, 5050@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 20 22:15:38 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k8qyI-0002us-Jg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 22:15:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50180 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k8qyH-0008Lm-Du for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:15:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58320) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k8qxn-0008GX-QG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:15:12 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:60939) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k8qxh-0006er-QY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:15:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k8qxh-0004hU-M5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:15:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 20:15:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 5050 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 5050-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B5050.159795449018039 (code B ref 5050); Thu, 20 Aug 2020 20:15:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 5050) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Aug 2020 20:14:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44252 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k8qxW-0004gt-4i for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:14:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48144) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k8qxU-0004gg-Vb for 5050@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:14:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47470) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k8qxP-0006ba-OF; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:14:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2971 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1k8qxO-0004Ol-E5; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:14:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87a6ypt7sf.fsf@gmx.net> (message from Stephen Berman on Thu, 20 Aug 2020 21:51:44 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:185785 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Berman > Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 21:51:44 +0200 > Cc: Sebastian Rose , 5050@debbugs.gnu.org > > > This is the problem: ediff-coding-system-for-read is raw-text, which > > gives us the binary data in the buffer instead of characters. > > Indeed, and when I set ediff-coding-system-for-read to utf-8 and carry > out the OP's recipe, the German text is displayed as it should be with > umlaut. Does setting ediff-coding-system-for-read to utf-8 botch comparison of files that are encoded in something other than UTF-8? I think it will, so this is not the right solution. Our problem is only with the messages that end up in the Ediff error buffer.