Re: 23.0.60; Assuming errstring unibyte is incorrect and leads to Emacs crashes

[Stephen Berman]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:20:37 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
>> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:40:01 +0900
>> 
>> > Can we explain in a comment what is special about a slash as the
>> > second character of the error message?
>> 
>> We should, but I don't know the reason.  By grepping
>> ChangeLog files, I found this item:
>> 
>> 1991-02-21  Richard Stallman  (address@hidden)
>> 
>>      * fileio.c (report_file_error): Don't downcase "I/O".
>> 
>> Is this the reason?
>
> Yes, that's what I remembered as well.  But if the reason is "I/O",
> why not test for that explicitly?  Do certain locales translate "I/O"
> into a different string, which still has a slash as its second
> character?

"E/A" (for "Ein-/Ausgabe") is commonly used in German.

Steve Berman