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bug#12598: 24.2; utf-8 codepoints in doc-strings and compression of .el
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Achim Gratz |
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bug#12598: 24.2; utf-8 codepoints in doc-strings and compression of .el and .elc files |
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Date: |
Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:36:56 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) |
Achim Gratz writes:
> Andreas Schwab writes:
>>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable defalias)
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>> That's because #@N counts in bytes, not characters.
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> I know, that's why I used goto-char to locate the place in org.elc and
> then the correspoding definition in org.el.
I've just decoded what you were telling me with that one-liner.
Disregard what I wrote above, not enough coffee yet…
So, any codepoint that is more than a single byte will throw the
byte-compiler off, not just any utf-8 codepoint. Since this has been in
Emacs likely ever since unicode strings have been introduced, I'd
suggest adding a *strong* warning in some prominent place in the
documentation about this even when it gets fixed in a newer version of
Emacs. Otherwise it's all too easy to produce libraries that have
mysterious failures depending on whatever Emacs was used to compile or
run them.
Regards,
Achim.
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