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25.1; Curly quotes generate invalid strings, leading to a segfault

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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 24206 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, nicolas <at> petton.fr
Subject: bug#24206: 25.1; Curly quotes generate invalid strings, leading to a segfault
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 10:57:43 -0700

>>>>> Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

>> Can you please ensure that there is intensive testing being done on these
>> patches before pushing them to our release branch?

> My name is on the "To:" line of your email, so are you under the impression
> that I pushed the patch? I did not, and would not have done so. Eli wrote
> and installed the patch, despite my recommendation of a different patch that
> would have avoided the failure. So this is really more a matter for Eli.

I trust Eli to have chastised himself sufficiently in that case, and
expectantly await correction of the problem. :)

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