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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: 10857@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10857: ucs-insert deals inconsistently with errors
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:37:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obstt2n9.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0STxcxOHg2YSOpeDeCFbre+AzhGBoGRhtwGW1xaUc0zb4A@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:53:56 +0100")

> 1)  M-x ucs-insert <RET> zzz <RET>   => "Not a Unicode character code: nil"
>     Which is caused by `read-char-by-name' not having a way to pass
> back what the user really typed. Still, I typed "zzz", not "nil", so
> the message is unhelpful.

Wouldn't it be too weird for `read-char-by-name' to return "zzz"
when the purpose of this function is to return a character,
not a string the user typed.

> 2) When called from lisp code, it deals differently with erroneous
> strings and erroneous non-strings:
>     (ucs-insert 'zzz)  =>  "Not a Unicode character code: zzz"   ;; correct
>     (ucs-insert "zzz")  =>  any non-hex string is turned into ^@ and
> inserted, and no error is produced.
>
> The second problem can be trivially fixed with
> (not (string-match-p "[^[:xdigit:]]" character)),

In `read-char-by-name', the condition for this purpose is:

  (string-match-p "^[0-9a-fA-F]+$" input)





  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-21  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-20 15:53 bug#10857: ucs-insert deals inconsistently with errors Juanma Barranquero
2012-02-21  0:37 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2012-02-21  1:25   ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-02-21  9:16     ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-21 10:39       ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-02-22  0:09     ` Juri Linkov
2012-02-22  9:03       ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-22 23:35         ` Juri Linkov

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