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Re: bug#5221: 23.1; read_escape too greedy with "\x"
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: bug#5221: 23.1; read_escape too greedy with "\x" |
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:53:43 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) |
Łukasz Stelmach <lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl> writes:
> Emacs (read_escape() function at lread.c file) interpretinterprets
> "\x3a480" string as "0x3a480" instead of ":" and "480" coming next.
> Some software (most? gnupg to name one) assume these escapes represent
> single bytes.
Then they are broken. The syntax of strings is documented in
(elisp)String Type.
Andreas.
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