From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: encoding of lisp/language/devan-util.el Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:35:36 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87of4eynd1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047663545 10252 80.91.224.249 (14 Mar 2003 17:39:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:39:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 14 18:39:00 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18tt8g-0002dX-00 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:38:38 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18ttWz-0000Pt-00 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:03:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18tt7r-0001sU-07 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:37:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18tt7X-0001qF-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:37:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18tt7V-0001p6-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:37:26 -0500 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18tt5x-0001L4-00; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:35:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF2F6146BF; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:35:37 +0100 (MET) Original-To: Alex Schroeder X-Yow: LIFE is a never-ending INFORMERCIAL! In-Reply-To: <87of4eynd1.fsf@gnu.org> (Alex Schroeder's message of "Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:33:14 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12359 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12359 Alex Schroeder writes: |> I cannot make bootstrap, because devan-util.el gives me a parse error |> (parenthesis missing). When I open the file, and move down to defvar |> dev-char-glyph, I can see the problem: the cdr of the second element |> in the alist is corrupt (using \e for escape): "\e$,4 K")\e(B" -- the |> quote after the K closes the string, etc. |> |> Obviously the file is not being decoded correctly. Calling M-x |> describe-coding-system returns: |> |> Coding system for saving this buffer: |> J -- iso-2022-7bit-unix |> Default coding system (for new files): |> 1 -- iso-latin-1 (alias: iso-8859-1 latin-1) |> |> This looks ok. What is the problem, then? I can't reproduce that with an emacs updated this morning, it can correctly decode the file. Are you sure it's not some kind of corruption on your side? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."