GNU bug report logs - #7925
23.2.91; report-emacs-bug doesn't like curly quotes

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:50:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 7256, 9465

Found in versions 23.2.91, 23.3.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 7925 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 7925 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, cyd <at> stupidchicken.com,
	Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#7925: 23.2.91; report-emacs-bug doesn't like curly quotes
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:08:08 +0000

On 30 January 2011 14:01, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
> The non-ASCII characters could be part of a Lisp backtrace (from a
> byte-compiled function).  In that case, conversion to hex is a
> reasonable thing to d.

Indeed, so it's sensible to mangle backtraces before including them
into an email buffer. That needn't be drawn to the user's attention
(though presumably it would help the maintainers to insert a comment
to the effect that the backtrace had been mangled?).

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