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24.0.50; repeated crash under Mac OS X

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, 7517 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org, user.emacs <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#7517: 24.0.50; repeated crash under Mac OS X
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:19:05 +0200

> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:10:45 +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
> 
> > Some bad interaction between VM and Emacs?
> 
> That may be, but I was under the impression that Emacs internally should use 
> unicode, so why is it even allowed to set such a buffer name?  Shouldn't Emacs 
> internals complain when given such strings, or convert them (if charset info 
> is available)?

Probably, but more information is needed.  Did you already find the
place where this string is used to create a buffer?  If so, can you
show me that place, and explain what sequence of calls led to it?

> Is setting buffer name with a non-ascii unibyte string considered as a bug? 

Yes, I think so.  Emacs should never use unibyte strings for buffer
names.

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