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Re: bug#5221: 23.1; read_escape too greedy with "\x"
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Łukasz Stelmach |
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Re: bug#5221: 23.1; read_escape too greedy with "\x" |
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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:04:17 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> Łukasz Stelmach <lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl> writes:
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>> Emacs (read_escape() function at lread.c file) interpretinterprets
>> "\x3a480" string as "0x3a480" instead of ":" and "480" coming next.
>> Some software (most? gnupg to name one) assume these escapes represent
>> single bytes.
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> Then they are broken. The syntax of strings is documented in
> (elisp)String Type.
OK, good point. We need a workaround somewhere else (in GnuPG maybe?).
Please consider this bug solved/closed/non-existent.
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Miłego dnia,
Łukasz Stelmach