[Q] Prevent infinite recursion with undecided coding system

Michael Sperber sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Thu Aug 2 02:06:50 EDT 2007


"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> Michael Sperber writes:
>
>  > Aidan Kehoe <kehoea at parhasard.net> writes:
>  > 
>  > > It looks like Qbinary would be more correct in both places, but then
>  > > handling code will be more ready to deal with Qraw_text, since it can return
>  > > that already. Do you have a test case that provokes the recursion, Mike?
>  > 
>  > Almost any subprocess will do for me.  I mostly triggered it with ispell
>  > and uncompressing info files.
>
> That's so weird.  I've never seen this infinite recursion.  What is
> your locale?  Do you have any tweaks to your language environment?

Only this:

(if (fboundp 'set-default-buffer-file-coding-system)
    (set-default-buffer-file-coding-system (get-coding-system 'iso-8859-1)))

Note this is all in a non-MULE XEmacs, which may be why y'all are not
seeing it.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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