bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages

[Stephen Berman]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 21:42:47 +0200 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> (defun ediff-exec-process (program buffer synch options &rest files)
>
> [...]
>
>       ;; If this is a buffer job, we are diffing temporary files
>       ;; produced by Emacs with ediff-coding-system-for-write, so
>       ;; use the same encoding to read the results.
>       (coding-system-for-read
>        (if (string-match "buffer" (symbol-name ediff-job-name))
>            ediff-coding-system-for-write
>          ediff-coding-system-for-read))
>       args)
>
> This is the problem: ediff-coding-system-for-read is raw-text, which
> gives us the binary data in the buffer instead of characters.

Indeed, and when I set ediff-coding-system-for-read to utf-8 and carry
out the OP's recipe, the German text is displayed as it should be with
umlaut.

Steve Berman