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bug#20010: 24.4; Issue with Unicode characters in package description
From: |
Thierry Volpiatto |
Subject: |
bug#20010: 24.4; Issue with Unicode characters in package description |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:40:08 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.91 (gnu/linux) |
João Guerra <joca.bt@gmail.com> writes:
> Packages with Unicode characters in their description mess with the
> refreshing of the package archives. A popup buffer will always be shown
> in such situations, asking for the proper coding system. This buffer
> should be Unicode by default to avoid inconvenient situations like these.
>
> For example, just by starting Emacs as normally but using the following
> .emacs.d/init.el:
>
> (require 'package)
> (setq package-archives '(("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/")
> ("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")))
> (package-refresh-contents)
>
> A popup buffer will always be shown, stating:
>
> These default coding systems were tried to encode text
> in the buffer ` *temp*':
> (iso-latin-1-dos (3420 . 37326) (3421 . 40165))
> However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode:
> iso-latin-1-dos cannot encode these: 野 鳥
Easy to reproduce on Windows with just M-x list-packages.
let-binding `coding-system-for-write' to "utf-8" Fix the problem.
--
Thierry
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