From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Cc: u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk, user.emacs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7517: 24.0.50; repeated crash under Mac OS X
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:10:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1PZkAo-0001KV-Mp@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19745.21925.247000.562416@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (message from Uday S Reddy on Mon, 3 Jan 2011 04:50:45 +0000)
> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 04:50:45 +0000
> From: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
> Cc: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>,
> user.emacs@gmail.com,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
> > Why, doesn't
> >
> > (coding-system-get FOO :mime-charset)
> >
> > work for you, or isn't TRT in this case?
>
> The FOO in this case is a coding-system?
Yes.
> But VM doesn't know what coding-system to use. It has to find the
> coding-system based on the mime-charset.
>
> It received a string that is encoded in the MIME charset
> "iso-8859-8-i". It tried to find an Emacs coding system that had this
> mime-charset property. But there wasn't any. So it gave up.
If the attempt to find a coding-system by its MIME charset fails, I
think VM should try using the string as the name of a coding-system.
Would that work?
> Note that (coding-system "iso-8859-8-i" :mime-charset) returns
> "iso-8859-8".
Right, because iso-8859-8-i is an alias.
> What I am doing now is to see if there is a coding-system with the
> same name as the mime-charset.
I think you should do both, and try looking up MIME charset first.
> When I don't find a coding-system with the given name, I am using
> 'undecided, which is what I think you reocmmended. This at least gets
> us out of the unibyte string problem, even though what is produced is
> normally gibberish.
That could be the last resort.
> That is what I thought. But the OP is getting the "bad coding" text
> even if a multibyte string is used as the buffer name. So, perhaps
> there is a still problem there.
Maybe.
> The problem should show up if you do
>
> (generate-new-buffer "שולח דואר אלקטרוני")
>
> and switch to that buffer Emacs.
At least on MS-Windows (which is what I have here), I see no
problems. The text is displayed correctly and is legible.
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2010-12-29 4:29 ` bug#7517: 24.0.50; repeated crash under Mac OS X Chong Yidong
2010-12-29 11:59 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-29 12:21 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-29 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-29 16:06 ` emacs user
2010-12-30 11:35 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-30 14:20 ` emacs user
2010-12-30 22:02 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-31 6:11 ` emacs user
2010-12-31 6:12 ` emacs user
2010-12-31 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-31 11:16 ` emacs user
2010-12-31 10:49 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-31 11:23 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-31 11:26 ` emacs user
2010-12-31 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-31 13:06 ` emacs user
2010-12-31 13:18 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-31 13:10 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-31 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-31 14:22 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-31 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-31 16:09 ` emacs user
2010-12-31 18:57 ` Jan Djärv
2011-01-01 3:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-12-31 16:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-31 17:42 ` emacs user
2010-12-31 22:30 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-31 23:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-01 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-01 12:46 ` emacs user
2011-01-01 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-01 17:02 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-01-01 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-01 18:34 ` Jan D.
2011-01-02 14:02 ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-03 21:34 ` Jan Djärv
2011-01-01 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-01 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-01 12:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-01 17:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-01 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <8362u8pkg6.fsf__47242.3368752517$1293906238$gmane$org@gnu.org>
2011-01-01 22:43 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-01-02 4:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-02 20:43 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-01-02 22:06 ` Jan Djärv
2011-01-03 4:59 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-01-03 8:10 ` emacs user
2011-01-02 22:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-03 4:50 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-01-03 13:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-01-03 21:07 ` Jan Djärv
2011-01-03 0:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-31 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-31 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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