bug#40702: 28.0.50; (what-cursor-position) barfs on non-ASCII char

[Štěpán Němec]

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 19:50:10 +0300
Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> 2019-05-28T20:59:35-04:00!monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
>> 146486f8a6 (* mule-cmds.el (encoded-string-description): Require unibyte 
>> string as input)
>> https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=146486f8a6
>> 
>> Removing the assertion reverts to the Emacs 26 behaviour.
>> 
>> Unfortunately there is no explanation regarding the change. Maybe Stefan
>> could provide some insight?
>
> Could the discussion below provide such an explanation?
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-05/msg00949.html

Yes, and also a lot of other useful context/reference information.

Thanks!

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