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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: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
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 10:55:46 -0700

John Wiegley wrote:
> I'm rather disturbed by patches being added to emacs-25 which "fail
> spectacularly".

So am I.

> 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.
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