GNU bug report logs - #1187
23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:30:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #110 received at 1187-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 1187-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lawrence Mitchell <wence <at> gmx.li>
Subject: Re: bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:46:05 -0400

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/download/vline.el contains
non-ascii chars, but does not contain any coding tag, so depending on
your coding settings, it will decode it in different ways, some of which
will lead to load-time errors, others to incorrect behavior.
There's nothing for Emacs to do here.
Such uses are OK for a file you wrote for your own use, but for
distribution to people who may use other locales, it's not.


        Stefan
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