From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21471: 25.0.50; bug report with text from Info has spurious escape chars Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 09:21:02 +0300 Message-ID: <83si6ha5dd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <55F5CBA0.90406@cs.ucla.edu> <065d972a-464a-4d55-9b67-29b3827caeb9@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442211741 9985 80.91.229.3 (14 Sep 2015 06:22:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:22:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 21471@debbugs.gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 14 08:22:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbN9V-0002KZ-5I for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 08:22:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38608 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbN9U-0003WE-EO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 02:22:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45201) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbN9R-0003VH-KR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 02:22:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbN9O-0003St-I5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 02:22:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:39019) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbN9O-0003Sf-G9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 02:22:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbN9O-0003YZ-6A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 02:22:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:22:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21471 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21471-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21471.144221169813639 (code B ref 21471); Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:22:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21471) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Sep 2015 06:21:38 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59462 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbN8z-0003Xv-HY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 02:21:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:41558) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbN8x-0003Xm-6m for 21471@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 02:21:35 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NUN00600LCA7S00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for 21471@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 09:17:36 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NUN00M4RLHC65A0@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 09:17:36 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <065d972a-464a-4d55-9b67-29b3827caeb9@default> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:106502 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 13:55:42 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: 21471@debbugs.gnu.org > > > 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. Not "Unicode", any non-ASCII characters. > 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. You can always copy/paste manually, replacing the text that Emacs put in the clipboard for you, if you care. Or you can make the text an attachment. And please recall that the instructions for writing the bug report explicitly asked for avoiding non-ASCII characters.