Re: 23.0.60; Coding system troubles since two days

[Tom Rauchenwald]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

> Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
> usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.
>
> Your bug report will be posted to the address@hidden mailing list.
>
> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
>
> Since I updated my emacs CVS checkout on march, 26th in the morning
> (EST) I have some very frustrating coding system issues.  They appeared
> first when using Gnus (I couldn't read mails of one of my colleagues),
> then I got some errors with rcirc (which I cannot reproduce).
>
> First I've thought it was a Gnus related problem, but now I tend more to
> say it's something in the coding system handling of emacs.  There are a
> few mails/postings of mine with more details, e.g. one of the mails I
> cannot open on the address@hidden list / gmane.emacs.gnus.general group.
>
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66565
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66567
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66568
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66570
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66573
>
> Maybe the following change causes the troubles?

in the last mail you say you get these:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument characterp 12269800)
with rcirc.
I get similar ones with ERC. So there seems to be a problem somewhere.

Tom

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