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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: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: 24206 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#24206: 25.1; Curly quotes generate invalid strings, leading to a segfault
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 18:21:29 +0300
On 08/14/2016 07:54 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Thanks forreporting that, Phil. Ituncovered several bugs in
> substitute-command-keys,some predating the curved-quote changes in Emacs
> 25.

So much for "this is a simple feature that's easy to implement in C".

Could you please at least add some tests corresponding to the fix? 
Instead of just hoping that nobody breaks it later.




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