GNU bug report logs - #32742
27.0.50; text-char-description examples fail

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 22:49:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 27.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: 32742 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32742: 27.0.50; text-char-description examples fail
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 01:44:36 +0300

The second and third example in (info "(elisp) Describing Characters")
fail when evaluated:

          (text-char-description ?\M-m)

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument characterp 134217837)
  text-char-description(134217837)
  eval((text-char-description 134217837) nil)
  elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
  command-execute(eval-last-sexp)

          (text-char-description ?\C-\M-m)

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument characterp 134217741)
  text-char-description(134217741)
  eval((text-char-description 134217741) nil)
  elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
  command-execute(eval-last-sexp)

Not sure if there is a bug in the implementation of text-char-description,
or its documentation was not updated after some implementation changes.
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 305 days ago.

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