Re: Fwd: parse-time-string error with non ASCII timestamp

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, "Levin Du" <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
>    My timestamp includes Chinese number, when the following executes:

>     (parse-time-string "<2007-04-02 一>")  ; the 12nd char is the
> Chinese number.

> An error will occur:

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range [nil nil nil nil nil
> nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil
[...]
> This is a patch I wrote to solve this problem:
> *** /home/zslevin/Cook/emacs/lisp/calendar/parse-time.el.orig
> 2007-04-02 10:01:27.000000000 +0800
> --- /home/zslevin/Cook/emacs/lisp/calendar/parse-time.el        2007-04-02
> 15:35:07.000000000 +0800
> ***************
> *** 66,72 ****
>     (aref parse-time-digits char))

>   (defsubst parse-time-string-chars (char)
> !   (aref parse-time-syntax char))

>   (put 'parse-error 'error-conditions '(parse-error error))
>   (put 'parse-error 'error-message "Parsing error")
> --- 66,73 ----
>     (aref parse-time-digits char))

>   (defsubst parse-time-string-chars (char)
> !   (and (< char (length parse-time-syntax))
> !        (aref parse-time-syntax char)))

It seems that this is the right fix at the moment because
parse-time.el doesn't pay attention to non-ASCII characters
at all.   In the future, we may have to improve it for
non-ASCII characters if necesary.

Shall I install that change?

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Kenichi Handa
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