Re: [BUG?] Wrong quote positions in exported CSL bib items when export is done with C-u C-e

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

András Simonyi <andras.simonyi@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear All,
>
> I'm experiencing the following mysterious problem with the csl
> citation export processor: exporting using the export dispatcher
> without a prefix argument works fine, but when I repeat the export
> action using C-u before C-e the exported bibliography items containing
> quotes have the quotes shifted to incorrect places, seemingly with a
> fix offset.
>
> Minimal example:
> ...
> The single bibliography item is the correct
>
>   Hobbs, Jerry R. 1985. “Ontological Promiscuity.” In /Proceedings of
>   the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
>   Linguistics/, 61–69. Chicago: Association for Computational
>   Linguistics.
>
> when exported with C-e and as an UTF-8 buffer
>
> but contains an incorrectly places quote:
>
>   Hobbs, Jerry R. 1985. “Ontological Promiscuity. In” /Proceedings of
>   the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
>   Linguistics/, 61–69. Chicago: Association for Computational
>   Linguistics.
>
> when exported (again) with C-u C-e.
>
> Emacs version: 28.1
> Org version:  9.5.4
> (Citeproc version is Melpa 20220702.2132)
>
> is anybody else seeing this behaviour?

Confirmed.
I managed to trace this down to the output value of
org-cite-csl--rendered-bibliographies (using M-x trace-function + M-x diff-buffers).

I suspect that it might be something to do with destructive list
modifications in some kind of cache.

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