GNU bug report logs - #24206
25.1; Curly quotes generate invalid strings, leading to a segfault

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Phil <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 18:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: johnw <at> gnu.org, 24206 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24206: 25.1; Curly quotes generate invalid strings, leading to a segfault
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 21:58:25 +0300

> Cc: johnw <at> gnu.org, 24206 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:33:36 -0700
> 
> As I take it, your principal objection to the new code is not to its internals: 
> it's that substitute-command-keys can now return a multibyte string even when 
> all the input data is unibyte. I don't think that's a big deal, but if this is 
> the primary reason for our lengthy conversation, I can move things forward by 
> changing the code so that it instead returns a unibyte string when all the input 
> data are unibyte. Would that suffice?

No, that's not the primary reason.  The primary reason is that I think
we should avoid changing code that doesn't necessarily need any
changes.
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