From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 21471@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21471: 25.0.50; bug report with text from Info has spurious escape chars
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 13:55:42 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <065d972a-464a-4d55-9b67-29b3827caeb9@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55F5CBA0.90406@cs.ucla.edu>
> This bug is not a regression, as I get similar behavior with Emacs 24.5 on
> Ubuntu 15.04 (email client Thunderbird 38.2.0) as follows:
...
> The mail that's sent includes strings like this:
>
> Copyright =C2=A9 1990=E2=80=931996, 1998=E2=80=932014 Free Software Foun=
> dation, Inc.
>
> even though it's marked "Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8;
> format=flowed". This problem occurs with all non-ASCII characters, not
> merely with curved quotes.
OK, so it's not a regression, in that Unicode chars have
apparently long been copied and pasted incorrectly in this
context.
But Unicode chars were not used all over the place previously,
which makes it a regression of sorts, in observed behavior.
This will bite lots more users a lot more, even if the problem
was potentially present previously as well.
It's a bad bug, interfering considerably with usability,
regardless of whether we want to call it a regression.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-13 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-13 15:07 bug#21471: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: bug report with text from Info has spurious escape chars Drew Adams
2015-09-13 19:16 ` bug#21471: 25.0.50; " Paul Eggert
2015-09-13 20:55 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-09-14 6:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-13 20:02 ` bug#21471: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: " Eli Zaretskii
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[not found] ` <<83wpvu9jf1.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-09-13 20:58 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-14 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
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[not found] ` <<83r3m1a5bf.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-09-14 13:47 ` Drew Adams
[not found] <<55F5CBA0.90406@cs.ucla.edu>
[not found] ` <<065d972a-464a-4d55-9b67-29b3827caeb9@default>
[not found] ` <<83si6ha5dd.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-09-14 13:41 ` bug#21471: 25.0.50; " Drew Adams
2015-09-14 16:38 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-14 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-14 21:10 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-15 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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