From: Sean McLaughlin <seanmcl@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 11026@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11026: 23.3; call-process-region deletes unicode chars
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:03:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAO4dZbcaAV17dAxoLKHUWfppRndEv10rTEz5y7M==E+1GmPxww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r4wsv0fh.fsf@gnu.org>
I apologize. I thought it was a bug because when I write the buffer
to a file and use call-process it works.
Thank you for your time. I'll try to close the bug.
Sean
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Sean McLaughlin <seanmcl@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:07:55 -0400
>>
>> Create a buffer called 'bug' with multi-byte chars. For example, with
>> the contents
>>
>> Alpha = α
>>
>> Run (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max) "cat" t t) in that
>> buffer. It deletes the non-ascii unicode chars and leaves everything
>> else intact.
>
> This is not a bug, but a cockpit error.
>
> You need to bind coding-process-for-write to something sensible, like
> utf-8. Otherwise, `cat' will get unpredictable sequence of bytes
> instead of the Unicode character, and will respond with another
> unpredictable sequence.
>
> I think this bug report should be closed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-16 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-16 16:07 bug#11026: 23.3; call-process-region deletes unicode chars Sean McLaughlin
2012-03-16 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-16 19:03 ` Sean McLaughlin [this message]
2012-03-16 19:06 ` Sean McLaughlin
2012-03-17 22:19 ` Stefan Monnier
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