GNU bug report logs - #44486
27.1; C-@ chars corrupt elisp buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>

Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 15:24:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 27.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #70 received at 44486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: thievol <at> posteo.net, larsi <at> gnus.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org,
 44486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44486: 27.1; C-@ chars corrupt elisp buffer
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 17:56:36 -0500

>> For .el files, we can always bind inhibit-null-byte-detection to t
>> when we load or visit such files.
> Alternatively, we could introduce a separate coding-system whose
> :inhibit-null-byte-detection property is t, and use that for *.el
> files.

If you want to go that route, that's fine by me.  AFAIK noone else uses
`prefer-utf-8`, so it doesn't seem worth the trouble, tho (especially
since we don't have any evidence that potential other users would favor
the current behavior over the inhibit-null-byte-detection one).


        Stefan
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