From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:20:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878y5n9vh9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502171208.VAA09592@etlken.m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:08:02 +0900 (JST)")
> Even if size_byte == size, it may contain eight-bit-graphic
> characters, and decoding such a string is a valid operation.
> And even if size_byte > size, it may contain only ASCII,
> eight-bit-graphic, and eight-bit-control charactes. It's
> also a valid operation to decode it.
I think it should not be considered valid to decode a multibyte string,
whether the string happens to only contains ASCII (or ASCII+eight-bit-*)
or not.
> It's not a trivial work to change the current code (in coding.c) to signal
> an error safely while doing a code conversion.
If by "safely" you mean "which will not break currently working code",
I agree. If by "safely" you mean "which will not break properly written
code", I disagree.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-17 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-13 3:50 decode-coding-string gone awry? David Kastrup
2005-02-14 1:50 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-02-14 2:28 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-15 6:15 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-15 9:31 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-15 16:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-17 10:35 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-17 12:08 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-02-17 13:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-02-18 8:30 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-02-18 12:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-19 9:44 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-18 14:12 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-19 20:55 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-21 1:19 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-02-22 8:41 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-18 14:12 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-14 13:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-14 13:50 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-14 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-14 17:24 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-14 18:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-14 18:41 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-14 19:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-14 20:09 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-14 20:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-14 21:07 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-14 21:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-14 21:57 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-14 21:26 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-15 17:28 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-15 21:42 ` David Kastrup
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