From: Joe Wells <jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk: strange Emacs 22.1 failure due to utf-8-compose-scripts when --no-window-system used]
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:35:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86hco4wed4.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IARlO-0005ru-FI@etlken.m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:41:26 +0900")
Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:
> Sorry for the late response, but I can't reproduce that
> problem with the latest CVS code.
That sounds like good news.
Am I correct in assuming others _can_ reproduce the problem with the
official Emacs 22.1 release? Otherwise maybe I need to provide better
instructions for reproducing the problem.
--
Joe
> Do anyone know if a fix was installed recently?
>
> ---
> Kenichi Handa
> handa@m17n.org
>
> In article <E1IA7Ik-0008WD-5P@fencepost.gnu.org>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> [I sent this message a week ago but did not get a response.]
>> Would you please DTRT and ack? Please install the fix in Emacs 22
>> if it is simple enough.
>
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>> From: Joe Wells <jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk>
>> To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:01:19 +0100
>> Subject: strange Emacs 22.1 failure due to utf-8-compose-scripts when
>> --no-window-system used
>
>> Dear Emacs gurus
>
>> Run the script below to see an interesting failure. These 3
>> ingredients are needed:
>
>> 1. The environment variable LC_CTYPE (or probably LANG or LC_ALL, but
>> I haven't checked those variables) must be set (probably to a UTF-8
>> locale, but I haven't checked any locales other than "C" (no bug)
>> and "en_US.UTF-8" (bug)).
>> 2. The --no-window-system command-line argument must be used.
>> 3. The variable utf-8-compose-scripts must be set.
>
>> At this point, various things start failing strangely. The script
>> demonstrates one of the failures.
>
>> I hope this helps.
>
>> Joe
>
>> - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> #!/bin/sh
>> #
>> export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
>> emacs --no-window-system --quick --eval '(setq utf-8-compose-scripts t)' --load "lao-util"
>> #
>> # You will now see an error message like this one (replace XYZZY by
>> # the appropriate path for your system):
>> #
>> # utf-8-post-read-conversion: Recursive load: "XYZZY/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/language/lao-util.elc", "XYZZY/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/emacs-lisp/regexp-opt.elc", "XYZZY/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/language/lao-util.elc", "XYZZY/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/language/lao-util.elc", "/home/jbw/local2/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/emacs-lisp/regexp-opt.elc", "XYZZY/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/language/lao-util.elc", "XYZZY/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/language/lao-util.elc"
>> #
>> # In fact, lots of things will fail with this error message after this point.
>> - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>> In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
>> of 2007-06-27 on artemis
>> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70000000
>> configured using `configure '--prefix=/home/jbw/local2' '--enable-debug' '--disable-nls' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3 -ggdb''
>
>> Important settings:
>> value of $LC_ALL: nil
>> value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>> value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8
>> value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>> value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>> value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>> value of $LC_TIME: jbw
>> value of $LANG: nil
>> locale-coding-system: utf-8
>> default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
>
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E1IA7Ik-0008WD-5P@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-07-16 14:41 ` [jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk: strange Emacs 22.1 failure due to utf-8-compose-scripts when --no-window-system used] Kenichi Handa
2007-07-16 15:35 ` Joe Wells [this message]
2007-07-17 4:35 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-07-17 10:27 ` Joe Wells
2007-07-18 15:27 ` Joe Wells
2007-07-19 2:36 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-07-19 4:33 ` Joe Wells
2007-07-19 18:08 ` Joe Wells
2007-07-20 1:16 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-07-20 2:04 ` Kenichi Handa
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