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bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS
From: |
Mattias Engdegård |
Subject: |
bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 11:39:30 +0200 |
20 aug. 2020 kl. 21.13 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> I don't think I understand. mode_line_noprop_buf gets the bytes, and
> then we call make_string on it, so the result is the same as the one
> you'd like to avoid. Or am I missing something?
>
> By "settling on multibyte representation", do you mean that we should
> convert raw bytes to their multibyte form? Or do you mean something
> else?
No, I think we are talking about the same thing. Basically, it's about how the
bytes end up in mode_line_noprop_buf in the first place, since currently the
information of whether it should be interpreted as unibyte or multibyte gets
lost as soon as data from the strings it is composed of (like the buffer name
for %b, file name for %f etc) is added to it. Then make_string tries to restore
that information by looking at the bytes, and it is not always accurate.
One way of doing this is to always make sure that the input strings (buffer
name, file name, frame-title-format etc) are always in multibyte form. Another
would be to convert to multibyte as those strings are used, presumably in
decode_mode_spec. You know this code a lot better than I do, but the former may
be slightly more workable (and efficient).
> Again, what would you like to have instead? Would calling
> str_as_multibyte do what you want?
No, I don't think so -- once the unibyte/multibyte bit is lost, it can only be
restored imperfectly if all we have is the sequence of bytes. In mathematical
terms, the function that maps an arbitrary string object to its bytes has no
inverse. (Consider the unibyte string "\xc3\xa5" -- should the bytes {c3, a5}
be recreated as that unibyte string, or as the multibyte string "å"?)
Again we are talking about trivialities here, but perhaps the same syndrome
will arise in other contexts where it matters more. If we wrote Emacs from
scratch we likely wouldn't have unibyte strings at all: they are only there for
compatibility and various niche uses and performance hacks. I don't think it's
unreasonable to start normalising strings to multibyte where it matters.
Thanks for your patience!
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, (continued)
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Alan Third, 2020/08/17
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/08/18
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Alan Third, 2020/08/18
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/08/18
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/18
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Alan Third, 2020/08/18
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/08/20
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/20
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/08/20
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/20
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS,
Mattias Engdegård <=
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/21
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/08/21
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/21
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/08/21
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/08/23
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Alan Third, 2020/08/20
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/08/20
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/18
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/08/18
- bug#42904: [PATCH] Non-Unicode frame title crashes Emacs on macOS, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/18