Re: Towards a cleaner build: arc-mode

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> First of all, it defines defsubsts in the global namespace, but
>> (decode-char 'eight-bit 130) => 4194178
>> 
>> Hm...  Oh!  Is it working in a multibyte buffer, so it wants to insert
>> bytes that are in Emacs' "byte plane"?
>> 
>> (insert (decode-char 'eight-bit 130))
>> => \202
>> 
>> I guess.
>
> Yes.  However, I suspect this juggling is no longer need nowadays.  If
> you just use 'insert', does arc-mode break when you invoke the
> commands that end up using these calls?  This should be tried also in
> a locale whose codeset is not UTF-8.

Yes, if I just insert the bytes, things break.  In a zip file, I did a
chmod change to 0777 and in the new file, I got:

  -rwxrwxrwx         5  18-May-2019  05:27:06  text.txt

If I do the same, but replace

        (insert (if (< elt 128) elt (decode-char 'eight-bit elt)))

with just

        (insert elt)

I get:

  crws--S-wx         5  18-May-2019  05:27:06  address@hidden@text.t

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