GNU bug report logs - #70076
28.3; xml-escape-string parse issue

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "D. Schmudde" <d <at> schmud.de>

Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:03:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 28.3

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 70076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "D. Schmudde" <d <at> schmud.de>
Cc: public <at> protesilaos.com, 70076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70076: 28.3; xml-escape-string parse issue
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:08:12 +0300

> Cc: Protesilaos Stavrou <public <at> protesilaos.com>
> From: "D. Schmudde" <d <at> schmud.de>
> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:44:48 +0100
> 
> Starting with `emacs -Q`:
> 
> (require 'xml)
> (xml-escape-string "And now it\342\200\231s all this")
> 
> The result is: `xml-escape-string: Invalid XML character: 4194274, 
> 11`
> 
> I expect that the string will parse correctly with these escape 
> characters. Or is this expectation wrong?

Your expectation is wrong, AFAIU: you are inserting a unibyte string
(a string made out of raw bytes) instead of inserting a non-ASCII
multibyte string, which is what XML expects.

Why did you need to insert those bytes, and where did they come from?
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