bug#18760: 24.4; Encoding problem in about-emacs

[Lars Ljung]

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?

/Lars