bug#38191: incorrect text properties in result of `format' with multibyte(?) characters

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmail.com> writes:

> "Multibyte" is a guess, I don't really know the underlying reason.
>
> Examples:
>
> (format (propertize "`foo' %s bar" 'face 'bold) "xxx")
>   => #("`foo' xxx bar" 0 13 (face bold))
>
> (format (propertize "‘foo’ %s bar" 'face 'bold) "xxx")
>   => #("‘foo’ xxx bar" 0 10 (face bold))
>
> Length of the string is the same in both cases. In the first example
> the face is correctly applied to the whole string, in the second
> example 3 last characters incorrectly lack a face.
>
> This is a regression, it used to work correctly before, but I don't
> know when it became broken.

It's always off by the length of the inserted string, so it's at least
systematic:

(format (propertize "ççfoo %s bar" 'face 'bold) "xxx")
=> #("ççfoo xxx bar" 0 10 (face bold))

(format (propertize "ççfoo %s bar" 'face 'bold) "xxxx")
=> #("ççfoo xxxx bar" 0 10 (face bold))

It doesn't happen if there's just one multibyte character in the format
spec -- there has to be two or more.

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