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bug#50560: 28.0.50; 'insert-file-contents-literally' on multibyte buffer
From: |
Augusto Stoffel |
Subject: |
bug#50560: 28.0.50; 'insert-file-contents-literally' on multibyte buffers |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:44:24 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 at 14:52, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:58:06 +0200
>>
>> I thought 'insert-file-contents-literally' literally just inserted the
>> file contents, as bytes, but I noticed that in the following code
>>
>> (create-image
>> (with-temp-buffer
>> (set-buffer-multibyte nil)
>> (insert-file-contents-literally "picure.jpg")
>> (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max)))
>> nil t)
>>
>> the call to 'set-buffer-multibyte' is really essential.
>
> It is only essential for some very specific uses of the resulting
> buffer, but definitely not for all.
That's a good point. Maybe the issue is actually with 'create-image',
which seems to only work correctly when the data is passed as a unibyte
string, but gives no warning if you pass a multibyte one.