[Q] Prevent infinite recursion with undecided coding system

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Michael Sperber writes:

 > Aidan Kehoe <kehoea at parhasard.net> writes:
 > 
 > > It looks like Qbinary would be more correct in both places, but then
 > > handling code will be more ready to deal with Qraw_text, since it can return
 > > that already. Do you have a test case that provokes the recursion, Mike?
 > 
 > Almost any subprocess will do for me.  I mostly triggered it with ispell
 > and uncompressing info files.

That's so weird.  I've never seen this infinite recursion.  What is
your locale?  Do you have any tweaks to your language environment?