GNU bug report logs - #2949
23.0.92; font-info incompatible across Emacs versions

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Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:50:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#2949: 23.0.92; font-info incompatible across Emacs versions
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:44:50 -0700

Function `font-info', on which several other functions are based,
changed its return value sometime after Emacs 20. The CHARSET entry
was removed.

In Emacs 20, `font-info' returns an array like this:

["-*-Lucida Console-normal-r-*-*-14-112-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1"
 "-*-Lucida Console-normal-r-*-*-14-105-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1"
 ascii 8 14 0 0 0]

In Emacs 22 and later, it returns an array like this:

["-*-Lucida Console-normal-r-*-*-14-112-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1"
 "-*-Lucida Console-normal-r-*-*-14-105-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1"
 8 14 0 0 0]

This breaks any code that tries to use the result with different Emacs versions.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.92.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-03-30 on SOFT-MJASON
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'
This bug report was last modified 16 years and 100 days ago.

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