Re: translate-region bug

[Kenichi Handa]

I'm sorry for this late response.

In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Can you take a look at this?

Ok.

> To: address@hidden
> From: Jesper Harder <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:00:28 +0100
> Subject: translate-region bug
> Sender: address@hidden

> `translate-region' doesn't work correctly for multibyte characters.
> For example:

> (let ((table (make-string 256 ?y)))
>   (setf (aref table ?a) ?\201?\240)
>   (with-temp-buffer
>     (insert "abra")
>     (translate-region (point-min) (point-max) table)
>     (buffer-string)))

>   => "\x9c\xf4ye"

Thank you for the report.   I've just installed a fix for
handling multibyte characters in translate-region.  But,
it seems that your example above arrived at me as above, and
I couldn't run it.

If your code intended to do this:

(let ((table (make-string 256 ?y)))
  (aset table ?a (decode-char 'ucs #xa0)) ;; NBSP
  (with-temp-buffer
    (insert "abra")
    (translate-region (point-min) (point-max) table)
    (buffer-string)))

I confirmed that the new code returns a string of characters
NBSP 'y' 'y' NBSP.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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