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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:57:22 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 18760@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Perhaps since the encoding is specified at the end of the file but only
> > the first 256 bytes are read when extracting the title?
> 
> Where do you see that we only read the first 256 bytes?
> 
> Oh, you mean fancy-about-text?  I thought you were talking about
> fancy-startup-text, where we read the entire file.
> 
> Yes, you are right, that's the bug.  Thanks.

So, should we fix this on the emacs-24 branch?  Stefan?  Glenn?