GNU bug report logs - #30405
26.0.91; Incorrect apostrophe translation in ImageMagick error message

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>

Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 21:15:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in versions 26.0.91, 25.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #34 received at 30405 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 30405 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, gazally <at> runbox.com
Subject: Re: bug#30405: 26.0.91; Incorrect apostrophe translation in
 ImageMagick error message
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 10:57:28 -0800
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> We make the echo area
> buffer unibyte when the message is generated with the current buffer
> being unibyte.

This made sense back in the 1990s when unibyte was commonly used for text. 
Nowadays, though, wouldn't it make more sense to keep the echo area multibyte? 
The echo area is intended for text, not for binary data.




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