GNU bug report logs - #15426
24.3.50; Multibyte filenames and directory-files in unibyte buffer

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Reported by: Andreas Politz <politza <at> hochschule-trier.de>

Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:49:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 15426 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 15426 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Politz <politza <at> hochschule-trier.de>
Subject: Re: bug#15426: 24.3.50;
 Multibyte filenames and directory-files in unibyte buffer
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:15:44 -0400

> Don't do that: inserting multibyte strings into a unibyte buffer
> changes the representation of the characters in the string, so you get
> a unibyte string.  Unibyte buffers should only ever hold encoded text
> or binary data.

AFAICT his recipe does not involve inserting any string anywhere.


        Stefan
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