GNU bug report logs - #638
23.0.60; read-char evaluates to unexpected non-character value

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Markus Triska <markus.triska <at> gmx.at>

Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:05:06 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Markus Triska <markus.triska <at> gmx.at>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; read-char evaluates to unexpected non-character value
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:55:22 +0200

When I do:

   $ emacs -Q --eval "(insert (format \"%s\" (read-char nil nil 0.1))))"

The content of *scratch* is:

   7340161

whereas it is "nil" in Emacs 22.2.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.3 (i386-apple-darwin8.11.1, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
 of 2008-07-25 on pnsgw3-client030.demo.tuwien.ac.at
Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40400000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
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