Re: Maybe bug with multibyte string and aset

[pluskid]

From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Maybe bug with multibyte string and aset
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:22:16 +0900

> In article <address@hidden>, pluskid <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Then, try the following code
> 
> > (let ((foo "foobar"))
> >   (aset foo 0 ?\!!)) ; note the `!!' means the Chinese character I
> >                      ; mentioned above
> 
> > evaluate this expression , I get an error:
> 
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range "foobar" 25105)
> >   aset("foobar" 0 25105)
> 
> In emacs-unicode-2, I changed `aset' as an experiment so
> that storing a multibyte character in a unibyte string
> causes that error.  This is mainly to avoid unexpected
> unibyte->multibyte conversion of a string.
> 
> < (let ((foo (string-to-multibyte "foobar")))
> <   (aset foo 0 ?\!!)) ; note the `!!' means the Chinese character I
> 
> should work.
> 
> ---
> Kenichi Handa
> address@hidden
> 

Thanks very much! It works! I'll send an email to the author of Mew to
describe this problem. Maybe they'll fix their code.

Thanks!