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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: bug#30095: substitute* decoding-error
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 13:49:12 +0100
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To: nee <nee@cock.li>
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Hi nee,

> Hello, attached is a package definition that fails because substitute*
> throws an error. The file I try to substitute* on has some names with
> special signs like =C3=AB and =C3=A9 that might be related?

You could try something like this:

   ;; This file is ISO-8859-1 encoded.
   (with-fluids ((%default-port-encoding #f))
     (substitute* "the/file"
       (("this") "that")))

--=20
Ricardo

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