GNU bug report logs - #5799
24.0.50; Case and search problems in unibyte buffers

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: bojohan <at> gnu.org

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:49:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 5797

Fixed in version 24.1

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 5799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: bojohan <at> gnu.org
Cc: 5799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5799: 24.0.50; Case and search problems in unibyte buffers
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:43:06 +0300

> From: bojohan <at> gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:48:08 +0200
> Cc: 
> 
> `downcase' behaves strangely too:
> 
>     (let ((default-enable-multibyte-characters nil))
>       (with-temp-buffer
>         (downcase 255)))
>     => 4194303

This part is by design, I think: see the node "Character Codes" in the
ELisp manual.  4194303 is the internal multibyte representation of the
raw byte 255, part of the eight-bit charset.
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