From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: mj <mj54590@gmail.com>, 2416@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2416: 23.0.60; decode-coding-region
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:16:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <utz6otajo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <499f1cdd.050cc00a.4267.ffffc0ce@mx.google.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:13:01 -0800 (PST)
> From: mj <mj54590@gmail.com>
> Cc:
>
> I have been having this problem since I switched to Emacs 23 several
> weeks ago. I'm using VM to read my mails. There seems to be a problem
> in decode-coding-region when VM tries to decode a string. When VM
> tries to decode a region or a string, it uses a temporary buffer and
> basically runs the following lisp code:
>
> (apply 'decode-coding-region (point-min) (point-max) 'us-ascii nil)
>
> The original buffer content would be something like this:
>
> B7040400-12
> some text here
>
> after decode-coding-region is executed, the buffer content became:
>
> ^@7040450-12
> some text here
>
> Where ^@ is actually binary code \0 (not ascii ^ and @). There is another instance
> that a string was decoded and the result is ^@ prefixed.
>
> I could not reproduce this with "Emacs -Q". But it always happens when
> thsoe particular messages were processed by VM.
Could you please see if the problem still persists in the current CVS?
Your Emacs seems to be about a month old (Jan 29), and a couple of
related bugs were fixed in coding.c since then.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-21 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87eixqz6bc.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
2009-01-06 17:32 ` bug#1809: 23.0.60; epa-encrypt-file corrupts files Juri Linkov
2009-01-15 1:12 ` bug#1809: decode-coding-inserted-region " Juri Linkov
2009-01-15 2:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-15 23:02 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-15 23:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-22 18:20 ` bug#1809: marked as done (decode-coding-inserted-region corrupts files) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-02-20 21:13 ` bug#2416: 23.0.60; decode-coding-region mj
2009-02-21 9:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-02-21 13:20 ` MJ
2009-02-22 2:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-22 5:07 ` MJ
2009-02-22 5:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-22 5:23 ` MJ
2009-02-22 5:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-22 5:50 ` Processed: " Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-02-22 6:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-22 14:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-02-23 2:23 ` MJ
2009-02-22 18:20 ` bug#2416: marked as done (23.0.60; decode-coding-region) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-02-21 17:21 bug#2416: 23.0.60; decode-coding-region Chong Yidong
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