sort-columns and non-ascii character

sort-columns and non-ascii character

[Nigel O'Brian]

Version:
GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2002-03-23 on raven, modified by Debian

[recent install of Debian sid package emacs21_21.2-1_i386.deb]

Description:
I am visiting a file containing non-ascii characters which display as
'\200'. Here is the hexlified version of a small example

00000000: 4180 0a44 800a 4380 0a42 800a            A..D..C..B..


which looks like

A\200
D\200
C\200
B\200

in the buffer.

Set mark and point to enclose the whole rectangular region of text
and do M-x sort-columns. Emacs dies and disappears instantaneously,
every time.

First observed with a much larger file having some '\200's scattered
around.

Output of locale command
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

cheers,
N.

Re: sort-columns and non-ascii character

[Kenichi Handa]

When I was going to reply as attached to the bug report, I
found that the pretest version is not available here:
	alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/emacs/emacs-21.2.90.tar.gz
What is the correct location now?

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In article <15676.39247.914611.649328@milan.maths.usyd.edu.au>, "Nigel O'Brian" <nigel@maths.usyd.edu.au> writes:
> I am visiting a file containing non-ascii characters which display as
> '\200'. Here is the hexlified version of a small example

> 00000000: 4180 0a44 800a 4380 0a42 800a            A..D..C..B..
[...]
> Set mark and point to enclose the whole rectangular region of text
> and do M-x sort-columns. Emacs dies and disappears instantaneously,
> every time.

Thank you for the bug report, but I can't reproduce the bug.
It may be already fixed in the developping version.  Could
you please try with the pretest version for 21.3 which is
available at:
	?????
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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@etl.go.jp

Re: sort-columns and non-ascii character

[Richard Stallman]

You sent a very clear bug report, so I can say that this
does not fail in the pretest for 21.3.  Thanks.