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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rgm <at> gnu.org
Cc: gazally <at> runbox.com, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 30405 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30405: 26.0.91;
 Incorrect apostrophe translation in ImageMagick error message
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 07:08:02 +0200

On February 11, 2018 5:41:19 AM GMT+02:00, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 05:38:50 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> > Cc: gazally <at> runbox.com, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 30405 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > 
> > > BTW, replace "error" with "message" and the issue does not appear.
> > 
> > Because 'message' doesn't change the quotes.
> 
> Oops, ignore me.  That's not the reason.

The real reason is that 'message' has a string to display, and so can set up
the echo-area buffer according to multibyteness of that string (it does that
using set_message_1), whereas 'princ' and friends cannot do that.  And
'error' calls 'princ'.
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