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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 21471@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21471: 25.0.50; bug report with text from Info has spurious escape chars
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 13:55:42 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <065d972a-464a-4d55-9b67-29b3827caeb9@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55F5CBA0.90406@cs.ucla.edu>

> This bug is not a regression, as I get similar behavior with Emacs 24.5 on
> Ubuntu 15.04 (email client Thunderbird 38.2.0) as follows:
...
> The mail that's sent includes strings like this:
> 
> Copyright =C2=A9 1990=E2=80=931996, 1998=E2=80=932014 Free Software Foun=
> dation, Inc.
> 
> even though it's marked "Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8;
> format=flowed".  This problem occurs with all non-ASCII characters, not
> merely with curved quotes.

OK, so it's not a regression, in that Unicode chars have
apparently long been copied and pasted incorrectly in this
context.

But Unicode chars were not used all over the place previously,
which makes it a regression of sorts, in observed behavior.
This will bite lots more users a lot more, even if the problem
was potentially present previously as well.

It's a bad bug, interfering considerably with usability,
regardless of whether we want to call it a regression.





  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-13 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-13 15:07 bug#21471: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: bug report with text from Info has spurious escape chars Drew Adams
2015-09-13 19:16 ` bug#21471: 25.0.50; " Paul Eggert
2015-09-13 20:55   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-09-14  6:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-13 20:02 ` bug#21471: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: " Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <<cde9bbc9-378e-4656-8d10-caf2b8e208b7@default>
     [not found] ` <<83wpvu9jf1.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-09-13 20:58   ` Drew Adams
2015-09-14  6:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <<ad82df82-fa76-4fcf-bd11-0b15de8dcb3a@default>
     [not found]     ` <<83r3m1a5bf.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-09-14 13:47       ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <<55F5CBA0.90406@cs.ucla.edu>
     [not found] ` <<065d972a-464a-4d55-9b67-29b3827caeb9@default>
     [not found]   ` <<83si6ha5dd.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-09-14 13:41     ` bug#21471: 25.0.50; " Drew Adams
2015-09-14 16:38       ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-14 18:20         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-14 21:10           ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-15  6:56             ` Eli Zaretskii

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