bug#12598: 24.2; utf-8 codepoints in doc-strings and compression of .el and .elc files

[Andreas Schwab]

Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> writes:

> Stefan Monnier writes:
>>> I've just removed some utf-8 codepoints from docstrings in org-mode
>>> because when I compress either the source (.el.gz) or the resulting
>>> byte-compiled file (.elc.gz), the loader fails after the first function
>>> definition that has such a docstring.
>>
>> Sounds like a bug.  Can you send a precise recipe?
>
> The org.el currently in trunk should demonstrate it: compress the
> bytecompiled file with gzip, then try to (load "org") with the load-path
> set so that it finds those compressed files.  With the byte-compiled
> file you'll then get this error:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable defalias)

That's because #@N counts in bytes, not characters.

Andreas.

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