Subject: Re: bug#2416: 23.0.60; decode-coding-region

From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:47:03 +0100

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 22:13, mj <[email-masked]> wrote:

> (apply 'decode-coding-region (point-min) (point-max)  'us-ascii nil)
>
> The original buffer  content would be something like this:
>
> B7040400-12
> some text here
>
> after decode-coding-region is executed, the buffer content became:
>
> ^@7040450-12
> some text here
>
> Where ^@ is actually binary code \0 (not ascii ^ and @). There is another instance
> that a string was decoded and the result is  ^@ prefixed.

Could it be related to bug#1809?

(with-temp-buffer
  (insert (make-string 20 ?.))
  (decode-coding-region 1 (point-max) 'raw-text)
  (buffer-string))

=> "^@..................."

    Juanma