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From: Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: simon@familiekainz.at
Subject: report_file_errno downcases non-english text incorrectly
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:26:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761c1wmt3.fsf@fx.delysid.org> (raw)

Hi.

The logic in report_file_errno in src/fileio.c is subtle broken when it
comes to foreign language errors: In particular, the german translation
of "No such file or directory", which is "Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht
gefunden" should *not* be downcased, because "Datei" always has to start
with a capital letter, no matter where it is.

So this logic, is lacking:

        /* System error messages are capitalized.  Downcase the initial
           unless it is followed by a slash.  (The slash case caters to
           error messages that begin with "I/O" or, in German, "E/A".)
           */
        if (STRING_MULTIBYTE (errstring)
            && ! EQ (Faref (errstring, make_number (1)), make_number('/')))
          {
            int c;

            str = SSDATA (errstring);
            c = STRING_CHAR ((unsigned char *) str);
            Faset (errstring, make_number (0), make_number (downcase
            (c)));
          }

Does anyone have a suggestion if we can improve on this?

-- 
CYa,
  ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕



             reply	other threads:[~2015-01-20 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-20 14:26 Mario Lang [this message]
2015-01-20 16:04 ` report_file_errno downcases non-english text incorrectly Paul Eggert
2015-01-20 17:26   ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-20 22:31     ` Paul Eggert

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