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From: | GNU bug Tracking System |
Subject: | [debbugs-tracker] bug#17903: closed (Man-softhyphen-to-minus error when current-language-environment is shorter than 6 characters) |
Date: | Sat, 02 Aug 2014 16:23:02 +0000 |
Your message dated Sat, 02 Aug 2014 09:21:54 -0700 with message-id <address@hidden> and subject line Re: [Noah Friedman] Man-softhyphen-to-minus has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #17903, regarding Man-softhyphen-to-minus error when current-language-environment is shorter than 6 characters to be marked as done. (If you believe you have received this mail in error, please contact address@hidden) -- 17903: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17903 GNU Bug Tracking System Contact address@hidden with problems
--- 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 errorMan-softhyphen-to-minus: Args out of range: "UTF-8", 0, 6Here'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.elindex 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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--- Begin Message ---Subject: Re: [Noah Friedman] Man-softhyphen-to-minus Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 09:21:54 -0700 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. User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0
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