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25.0.50; REGRESSION: bug report with text from Info has spurious escape chars

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#21471: closed (Re: bug#21471: 25.0.50; bug report with text
 from Info has spurious escape chars)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:39:03 +0000

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Your bug report

#21471: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: bug report with text from Info has spurious escape chars

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 21471 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21471-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21471: 25.0.50; bug report with text from Info has spurious
 escape chars
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 09:38:29 -0700

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It is a longstanding double-encoding bug in mailclient-encode-string-as-url, and 
I installed the attached attempt to fix it.  Please give this a try.  I am 
boldly marking the bug as fixed.

I expect our more-extensive use of curved quotes to shake out other bugs like 
this in Emacs, and it is a good thing to fix them.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: bug report with text from Info has spurious
 escape chars
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 08:07:42 -0700 (PDT)

Dunno whether this regression is perhaps limited to MS Windows or
mail client Outlook.  I am using both.

emacs -Q
C-h i ; Choose Elisp
g font and TAB RET

Select the last paragraph about parameter `alpha' and copy it
using `M-w'.

M-x report-emacs-bug

Yank the copied text into the bug-report buffer.

Hit `C-c C-c'.  Choose to use an external mail client to
send the report.

When the mail client message window opens, select the
boiler-plate text:

*** E-Mail body has been placed on clipboard, please paste it here! ***

Paste the copied report-message text, replacing the selected
boiler-plate text.

This is what you get in the email message, to send as the
bug report:

     The =A1=AEalpha=A1=AF frame parameter can also be a cons cell =A1=AE(=
=A1=AEactive=A1=AF .
     =A1=AEinactive=A1=AF)=A1=AF, where =A1=AEactive=A1=AF is the opacity o=
f the frame when it is
     selected, and =A1=AEinactive=A1=AF is the opacity when it is not selec=
ted.

Curly quotes in the Info buffer have been replaced with
escape sequences such as =A1=AE.  This is in spite of the
fact that the mail-client window into which the text is
pasted is perfectly capable of handling Unicode chars such
as curly quotes.

(Just one more undesirable and unforeseen consequence of the
curly-quote-mania virus, I guess.  Time for yet another
hack-job workaround?)


In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-09-05
Repository revision: 2330ca33a97867f2ea1123bcf7bfe5cfcc030b36
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 'configure --host=3Di686-pc-mingw32 --enable-checking=3Dyes,glyphs'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: cp1252

Major mode: Info

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Composing main Info directory...done
Mark set [2 times]
Type C-x 1 to delete the help window, C-M-v to scroll help.
Char: =A1=AE (8216, #o20030, #x2018, file ...) point=3D1897434 of 3604579 (=
53%) <1894203-1899121> column=3D9

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml
mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev
gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util
help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils pp wid-edit descr-text help-mode
cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib info easymenu dired time-date mule-util tooltip
eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel
dos-w32 ls-lisp disp-table w32-win w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd
fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode
lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select
scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame
cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai
tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian
slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript
case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer
cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files
text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule
custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote w32notify w32 multi-tty
make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 8 201120 12359)
 (symbols 32 29890 0)
 (miscs 32 66 267)
 (strings 16 33256 8135)
 (string-bytes 1 757007)
 (vectors 8 14837)
 (vector-slots 4 840990 7268)
 (floats 8 133 188)
 (intervals 28 34710 2066)
 (buffers 516 15))

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