[debbugs-tracker] bug#17903: closed (Man-softhyphen-to-minus error when current-language-environment is shorter than 6 characters)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Man-softhyphen-to-minus error when current-language-environment is shorter than 6 characters Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 15:59:23 -0400

My current-language-environment is "UTF-8" and every time I do M-x man to get a new manpage, I get the error

Man-softhyphen-to-minus: Args out of range: "UTF-8", 0, 6

Here's a patch (although this is sent with gmail - don't ask - and it might be mangled beyond recognition):

diff --git a/lisp/man.el b/lisp/man.el

index 4b23530..24daca1 100644

--- a/lisp/man.el

+++ b/lisp/man.el

@@ -1177,7 +1177,8 @@ See the variable `Man-notify-method' for the different notification behaviors."

   ;; \255 is SOFT HYPHEN in Latin-N.  Versions of Debian man, at

   ;; least, emit it even when not in a Latin-N locale.

   (unless (eq t (compare-strings "latin-" 0 nil

- current-language-environment 0 6 t))

+ current-language-environment

+ 0 (min 6 (length current-language-environment)) t))

     (goto-char (point-min))

     (let ((str "\255"))

       (if enable-multibyte-characters

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> In trunk bzr 117628 I fixed this by changing compare-strings to silently 
> bring too-large positive end values into range, making it more 
> compatible with traditional behavior.  If we were designing 
> compare-strings from scratch the extra checking could be helpful, but I 
> doubt whether we have the time to find and fix all the contrary uses now.
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