Your message dated Thu, 23 Jan 2014 04:27:09 +0000
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and subject line Closing old emacs21 bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #222725,
regarding emacs21: Hidden text (with allout.el or folding.el) garbled on save
when LANG=en_US.UTF-8
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Package: emacs21
Version: 21.3+1-4
Severity: normal
I originally ran into the problem with folding.el (from the xemacs
packages), but when I had the same problem with allout.el I decided it
must be an emacs issue.
When saving a file with either folding or allout active, with hidden
sections, the hidden sections will be garbled. Looking at the file with
less you see all the text, but any newlines in a hidden section are
replaced with '^M' (i.e., a single long line with lots of ^M).
At first it was hard to figure out what was going on, as it didn't
happen 100% of the time. In fact, sometimes an old saved file with
folding marks (or outline marks) would display the problem, but if I
retyped the file entirely the problem would go away.
On a hunch, though, I tried setting LANG to '' instead of en_US.UTF-8
for the emacs process, and that seems to have eliminated the problem
entirely. I still don't understand entirely, but I can see that files
where I'm having this problem are reported as being UTF-8 Unicode
English text. I'm not clear how file determines this though, as they
keep that status accross a save using a LANG='' emacs process. There
need not be any two-byte chars, or non-ascii, even (at least, nothing I
recognize as such using a LANG='' less).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux mantis.med.jhmi.edu 2.4.22-3-mantis2 #1 Tue Oct 21 10:41:04 EDT
2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
ii emacs21-common 21.3+1-4 The GNU Emacs editor's common infr
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.3.20030719-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-4 PNG library - runtime
ii libtiff3g 3.5.7-2 Tag Image File Format library
ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-6 Xaw3d widget set
ii xlibs 4.2.1-14 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-1 compression library - runtime
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Jeremy Hankins <[email protected]>
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Hi! I'm closing this bug, since it affected emacs21, and the current
version is 23. If you still encounter this problem, please feel free to
re-open it and move it to the appropriate package, or ask me to do it.
Solveig
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