GNU bug report logs - #7517
24.0.50; repeated crash under Mac OS X

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Packages: emacs, ns;

Reported by: emacs user <user.emacs <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 7517 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, user.emacs <at> gmail.com, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#7517: 24.0.50; repeated crash under Mac OS X
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:57:11 +0100


Eli Zaretskii skrev 2010-12-31 17.07:
>> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:22:56 +0100
>> From: Jan Djärv<jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
>> CC: user.emacs <at> gmail.com, 7517 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, cyd <at> stupidchicken.com,
>>   monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
>>
>>                       (generate-new-buffer
>>                        (format "edit of %s's note re: %s"
>>                                (vm-su-full-name (car vm-message-pointer))
>>                                (vm-su-subject (car vm-message-pointer)))))
>
> So I guess VM holds the message in its undecoded (external) format?
> If so, it should do this:
>
>                        (format "edit of %s's note re: %s"
>                                (decode-coding-string
>                                  (vm-su-full-name (car vm-message-pointer))
>                                  SOMETHING)
>                                (decode-coding-string
>                                  (vm-su-subject (car vm-message-pointer))
>                                  SOMETHING))
>
> Quite what to use for SOMETHING depends on whether VM knows the
> encoding of the message.  If it does, it should use that; otherwise
> using `undecided' should DTRT in most cases.
>

But not in this case.  The given string is not decoded right with undecided. 
detect-coding-string doesn't list iso-8859-8.  I think choosing between 
iso-8859-x is difficult.  Still, VM should know the coding used.

	Jan D.
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