From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 7925@debbugs.gnu.org, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Subject: bug#7925: 23.2.91; report-emacs-bug doesn't like curly quotes
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:58:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr5brh6ii.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwsbp9ms.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:34:19 -0500")
>> Pretty much every time I use report-emacs-bug, I get the message
>> “Convert non-ASCII letters to hexadecimal?” There are two problems here:
>>
>> 1. From looking at the code in report-emacs-bug-hook, it really means
>> “non-ASCII characters”, as it looks for any non-7-bit character, not
>> just non-7-bit letters.
>>
>> 2. In this age of UTF-8, and, for example, my use of smart-quotes-mode,
>> what do you have against non-ASCII characters? Perhaps you’d like to try
>> to make sure that mail to report-emacs-bug is in English, but for that
>> you should be using some form of linguistic analysis.
> Maybe this question dates from the days when email was ASCII only. At
> the least, this check ought to only be applied to the mail headers (MIME
> is needed for non-ASCII in headers).
Why not drop it altogether?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-01 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-26 21:57 bug#7925: 23.2.91; report-emacs-bug doesn't like curly quotes Reuben Thomas
2011-01-29 23:34 ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-30 11:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-30 12:48 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-01-30 14:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-30 14:08 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-01-30 14:19 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-01-30 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-30 13:33 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-01-30 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-30 22:15 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-02-01 19:58 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-02-06 15:05 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-07 15:44 ` Reuben Thomas
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