Re: ctext-pre-write-conversion barfs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tak Ota <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 22:53:55 -0800 (PST)
> 
> `ctext-pre-write-conversion' is called from `writ-region' as
> 
>   annotations = build_annotations_2 (start, end,
>                                    coding.pre_write_conversion, annotations);
> 
> As an irregular case write-region sometimes passes a string in
> `start'.  It seems like ctext-pre-write-conversion is not prepared to
> receive a string in START.

Thanks, I will look into this.

Do you have any real-life example of using compound-text in a way that
causes it to be called from write-region?  Note that compound-text is
generally inappropriate for use in file I/O, as its string says (it
can't DTRT with multibyte text).