GNU bug report logs - #58168
string-lessp glitches and inconsistencies

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 16:25:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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Message #35 received at 58168 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 58168 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#58168: string-lessp glitches and inconsistencies
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2022 13:12:19 +0300

> Cc: 58168 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2022 12:02:12 +0200
> 
> Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >> (string 4194176)
> >> => "\200"
> >> "\x80"
> >> => "\200"
> >> 
> >> which are kinda equal in some ways, and not in other ways.
> >
> > And (string 128)
> > => "\200"
> 
> Funnily enough, the latter displays in a different way for me, which may
> or may not be a bug:

The former is a string of 4 characters, the latter is a string of just
one.
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