bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Christoph Conrad]

Hi!

commands:

- emacs -q --no-site-file
- M-: (setq ps-printer-name "MeinLaserdrucker")
- M-x ps-print-buffer

result in:

=> Emacs 21.4.1: works
=> Emacs 22.2.1: works

=> Emacs 23.0.94.1:

Printer emits page with error message ("---" to separate):

--------------------------------
# ERROR undefined
# OFFENDING COMMAND: 841,8897637795276

# STACK

/LandscapePageHeight

# ERRORINFO:
--------------------------------

bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Christoph Conrad <christoph.conrad@gmx.de>
> Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 10:36:39 +0200
> Cc: 
> 
> - emacs -q --no-site-file
> - M-: (setq ps-printer-name "MeinLaserdrucker")
> - M-x ps-print-buffer
> 
> result in:
> 
> => Emacs 21.4.1: works
> => Emacs 22.2.1: works
> 
> => Emacs 23.0.94.1:
> 
> Printer emits page with error message ("---" to separate):
> 
> --------------------------------
> # ERROR undefined
> # OFFENDING COMMAND: 841,8897637795276
> 
> # STACK
> 
> /LandscapePageHeight
> 
> # ERRORINFO:
> --------------------------------

Can you invoke ps-print-buffer with C-u to print to a file from each
of the Emacs versions, and then diff them and post the results here?

bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Christoph Conrad]

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Hi Eli,

> Can you invoke ps-print-buffer with C-u to print to a file from each
> of the Emacs versions, and then diff them and post the results here?

Sure. See below. It seems that in e23 in the generated postscript code
several numerical values use a ',' as decimal separator, in e21 or e22
it is a '.' which is correct in postscript. The first of that values is
with /LandscapePageHeight.

e22: /LandscapePageHeight 841.8897637795276 def
e23: /LandscapePageHeight 841,8897637795276 def

I used exactly the same environment for the three emacsen.

Regards,
Christoph


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> 
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> 
> Vf3 0 /Courier-BoldOblique-latin1 /Courier-BoldOblique Latin1Encoding put
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bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Jason Rumney]

Christoph Conrad wrote:
> Sure. See below. It seems that in e23 in the generated postscript code
> several numerical values use a ',' as decimal separator, in e21 or e22
> it is a '.' which is correct in postscript. The first of that values is
> with /LandscapePageHeight.
>   

What does the following produce? (paste it into *scratch* and press C-j 
to evaluate and print the result)

(format "%s" 1.1)


I can't get this to output anything other than 1.1 myself, but I may be 
missing something in the configuration of my environment that influences it.

bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Christoph Conrad]

Hi Jason,

> (format "%s" 1.1)

Emacs 22.2.1:    "1.1"
Emacs 23.0.94.1: "1.0"

I am a software developer and also able to use the emacs lisp debugger.
So if you instruct me where to look i can also give more detailed
information.

Regards,
Christoph

bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Christoph Conrad <christoph.conrad@gmx.de>
> Cc: 3420@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 08:16:14 +0200
> 
> Hi Jason,
> 
> > (format "%s" 1.1)
> 
> Emacs 22.2.1:    "1.1"
> Emacs 23.0.94.1: "1.0"

??? Really?  In my Emacs 23.0.94 it produces "1.1".  "1.0" is in
itself a bug, not sure if it can be related to the original problem or
not.

> I am a software developer and also able to use the emacs lisp debugger.
> So if you instruct me where to look i can also give more detailed
> information.

I suspect some locale-related problem, whereby a decimal point is
printed as a comma.  Can you change the Windows locale (this _is_
Windows, right?) to ENU and see if that makes the problem go away?

Alternatively, look through ps-print.el, find where it produces the
lines that differ, and try debugging to find out where does the comma
come from.

Thanks.

bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Christoph Conrad]

Hi Eli,

> ??? Really?

Yes.

> "1.0" is in itself a bug

Yes.

> I suspect some locale-related problem, whereby a decimal point is
> printed as a comma. Can you change the Windows locale (this _is_
> Windows, right?) to ENU and see if that makes the problem go away?

It is kubuntu 09.04.

LANG=de_DE.utf8 emacs -q --no-site-file  ==> 1.0
LANG=en_US.utf-8 emacs -q --no-site-file ==> 1.1

Mhmm - as you said - strange. Can you reproduce this using my locale
setting?

At least i have a workaround now.

Regards,
Christoph

bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Christoph Conrad]

Hi Eli,

some information i deleted from the original report about the build from
the emacs 23.0.94 tarball using ./configure && make && sudo make install.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.94.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.1)
 of 2009-05-30 on brabbelbox
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10600000
configured using `configure  'CC=gcc''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.utf8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Regards,
Christoph

bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Christoph Conrad]

Hi Eli,

LANG=de_DE.utf8 emacs -q --no-site-file  
==> 
"," in numbers in C-u ps-print-buffer


LANG=en_US.utf-8 emacs -q --no-site-file
==> 
correct output in C-u ps-print-buffer

Regards,
Christoph

bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Christoph Conrad <christoph.conrad@gmx.de>
> Cc: jasonr@gnu.org,  3420@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 12:19:36 +0200
> 
> > I suspect some locale-related problem, whereby a decimal point is
> > printed as a comma. Can you change the Windows locale (this _is_
> > Windows, right?) to ENU and see if that makes the problem go away?
> 
> It is kubuntu 09.04.
> 
> LANG=de_DE.utf8 emacs -q --no-site-file  ==> 1.0
> LANG=en_US.utf-8 emacs -q --no-site-file ==> 1.1
> 
> Mhmm - as you said - strange. Can you reproduce this using my locale
> setting?

Not on this machine:

   Linux fencepost 2.6.16.29-xen #1 SMP Wed Dec 6 07:32:36 EST 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I get "1.1" with LANG=de_DE.utf8 as well.

bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Christoph Conrad <christoph.conrad@gmx.de>
> Cc: jasonr@gnu.org,  3420@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 12:57:52 +0200
> 
> Hi Eli,
> 
> LANG=de_DE.utf8 emacs -q --no-site-file  
> ==> 
> "," in numbers in C-u ps-print-buffer
> 
> 
> LANG=en_US.utf-8 emacs -q --no-site-file
> ==> 
> correct output in C-u ps-print-buffer

Can you spot which Emacs primitive or subroutine produces the comma
separators?

I think ps-print should never use localized decimals, does anyone
thinks otherwise?

bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Andreas Schwab]

Christoph Conrad <christoph.conrad@gmx.de> writes:

> It is kubuntu 09.04.
>
> LANG=de_DE.utf8 emacs -q --no-site-file  ==> 1.0
> LANG=en_US.utf-8 emacs -q --no-site-file ==> 1.1

Looks like the setlocale call in emacs.c:fixup_locale is not working.

Andreas.

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bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: 3420@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 14:21:24 +0200
> 
> Christoph Conrad <christoph.conrad@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > It is kubuntu 09.04.
> >
> > LANG=de_DE.utf8 emacs -q --no-site-file  ==> 1.0
> > LANG=en_US.utf-8 emacs -q --no-site-file ==> 1.1
> 
> Looks like the setlocale call in emacs.c:fixup_locale is not working.

You didn't mean it was Emacs's fault, right?  Because emacs.c didn't
change a bit since 23.0.92.

bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> You didn't mean it was Emacs's fault, right?

I have no idea.

Andreas.

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bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Christoph Conrad]

Hi Eli,

> Can you spot which Emacs primitive or subroutine produces the comma
> separators?

float_to_string() in print.c, the line:

sprintf (buf, "%.*g", width, data);

Regards,
Christoph

bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Christoph Conrad]

Hi Andreas,

> Looks like the setlocale call in emacs.c:fixup_locale is not working.

In float_to_string the lisp object used conatins 1.0, not 1.1. So i
assume that the error with the number conversion happens when converting
the string "1.1" to the float lisp object.

Has anyone a hint where this happens?

Regards,
Christoph

bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Andreas Schwab]

Christoph Conrad <christoph.conrad@gmx.de> writes:

> Has anyone a hint where this happens?

Look for atof in lread.c.

Andreas.

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bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[James Cloos]

>   value of $LANG: de_DE.utf8

That really ought to be „de_DE.UTF-8“.

It would be interesting to know whether that makes a difference.

-JimC
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bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Christoph Conrad]

Hallo James,

>> value of $LANG: de_DE.utf8
> That really ought to be „de_DE.UTF-8“.

> It would be interesting to know whether that makes a difference.

No, it makes no difference, both errors persist.

Regards,
Christoph

bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[James Cloos]

>> That really ought to be „de_DE.UTF-8“.

>> It would be interesting to know whether that makes a difference.

> No, it makes no difference, both errors persist.

I tried it on a debian sid box, using the version of emacs-cvs available
from the deb archive at http://emacs.orebokech.com and was unable to
duplicate.

(The splash screen says:

GNU Emacs 23.0.94.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
 of 2009-05-25 on elegiac, modified by Debian
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
)

-JimC
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bug#3420: 23.0.94; Printing error on HP Laserjet 6L

[Christoph Conrad]

Hi Jim,

> I tried it on a debian sid box, using the version of emacs-cvs
> available from the deb archive at http://emacs.orebokech.com and was
> unable to duplicate.

Maybe it is a very unusual and rare combination on my GNU/Linux system.
I do not insist on progressing.

Regards,
Christoph