GNU bug report logs - #23750
25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 02:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.95

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 23750 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA, sdl.web <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#23750: 25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 05:30:04 +0300

> Cc: 23750 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA, sdl.web <at> gmail.com
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 23:27:01 +0300
> 
> On 06/20/2016 11:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > We can replace the call to multibyte-string-p with a comparison of
> > what 'length' and 'string-bytes' return.  That should overcome this
> > issue.
> 
> Why not just call string-to-unibyte?

Because (a) I don't want to see that function in our sources, ever,
and (b) you don't have any control on the error message it produces,
which is not appropriate for application-level checks.
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