Re: address@hidden: strange Emacs 22.1 failure due to utf-8-compose-scripts when --no-window-system used]

[Joe Wells]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> Sorry for the late response, but I can't reproduce that
> problem with the latest CVS code.

That sounds like good news.

Am I correct in assuming others _can_ reproduce the problem with the
official Emacs 22.1 release?  Otherwise maybe I need to provide better
instructions for reproducing the problem.

-- 
Joe

> Do anyone know if a fix was installed recently?
> 
> ---
> Kenichi Handa
> address@hidden
>
> In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> [I sent this message a week ago but did not get a response.]
>> Would you please DTRT and ack?  Please install the fix in Emacs 22
>> if it is simple enough.
>
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>> From: Joe Wells <address@hidden>
>> To: address@hidden
>> Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:01:19 +0100
>> Subject: strange Emacs 22.1 failure due to utf-8-compose-scripts when
>>      --no-window-system used
>
>> Dear Emacs gurus
>
>> Run the script below to see an interesting failure.  These 3
>> ingredients are needed:
>
>> 1. The environment variable LC_CTYPE (or probably LANG or LC_ALL, but
>>    I haven't checked those variables) must be set (probably to a UTF-8
>>    locale, but I haven't checked any locales other than "C" (no bug)
>>    and "en_US.UTF-8" (bug)).
>> 2. The --no-window-system command-line argument must be used.
>> 3. The variable utf-8-compose-scripts must be set.
>
>> At this point, various things start failing strangely.  The script
>> demonstrates one of the failures.
>
>> I hope this helps.
>
>> Joe
>
>> - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> #!/bin/sh
>> #
>> export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
>> emacs --no-window-system --quick --eval '(setq utf-8-compose-scripts t)' 
>> --load "lao-util"
>> #
>> # You will now see an error message like this one (replace XYZZY by
>> # the appropriate path for your system):
>> #
>> # utf-8-post-read-conversion: Recursive load: 
>> "XYZZY/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/language/lao-util.elc", 
>> "XYZZY/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/emacs-lisp/regexp-opt.elc", 
>> "XYZZY/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/language/lao-util.elc", 
>> "XYZZY/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/language/lao-util.elc", 
>> "/home/jbw/local2/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/emacs-lisp/regexp-opt.elc", 
>> "XYZZY/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/language/lao-util.elc", 
>> "XYZZY/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/language/lao-util.elc"
>> #
>> # In fact, lots of things will fail with this error message after this point.
>> - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>> In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
>>  of 2007-06-27 on artemis
>> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70000000
>> configured using `configure  '--prefix=/home/jbw/local2' '--enable-debug' 
>> '--disable-nls' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3 -ggdb''
>
>> Important settings:
>>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>>   value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8
>>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>>   value of $LC_TIME: jbw
>>   value of $LANG: nil
>>   locale-coding-system: utf-8
>>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
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