From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 36988@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36988: 26.2; Error "Non-hex digit used for Unicode escape" is not too helpful
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 06:21:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r25ch5pw.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cef4784-f090-4a83-b54d-496f23569dd3@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 9 Aug 2019 09:25:01 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> emacs -Q
>
> Put this text in *scratch*, then move point to bob:
>
> "\u2"
>
> Then evaluate (read (current-buffer)). You get this error:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Non-hex digit used for Unicode escape")
> read(#<buffer *scratch*>)
> eval((read (current-buffer)) nil)
> eval-expression((read (current-buffer)) nil nil 127)
> funcall-interactively(eval-expression (read (current-buffer)) nil nil 127)
> call-interactively(eval-expression nil nil)
> command-execute(eval-expression)
[...]
> Perhaps there could be some way to point more or less to the offensive
> "Non-hex digit used for Unicode escape"? In this case, the offense was
> apparently committed by the \u.
No, the quote mark.
I've now changed this error message to be a bit more helpful:
Non-hex character used for Unicode escape: " (34)
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2019-08-09 16:25 bug#36988: 26.2; Error "Non-hex digit used for Unicode escape" is not too helpful Drew Adams
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