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bug#36988: 26.2; Error "Non-hex digit used for Unicode escape" is not to
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#36988: 26.2; Error "Non-hex digit used for Unicode escape" is not too helpful |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Aug 2019 06:21:31 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> emacs -Q
>
> Put this text in *scratch*, then move point to bob:
>
> "\u2"
>
> Then evaluate (read (current-buffer)). You get this error:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Non-hex digit used for Unicode escape")
> read(#<buffer *scratch*>)
> eval((read (current-buffer)) nil)
> eval-expression((read (current-buffer)) nil nil 127)
> funcall-interactively(eval-expression (read (current-buffer)) nil nil 127)
> call-interactively(eval-expression nil nil)
> command-execute(eval-expression)
[...]
> Perhaps there could be some way to point more or less to the offensive
> "Non-hex digit used for Unicode escape"? In this case, the offense was
> apparently committed by the \u.
No, the quote mark.
I've now changed this error message to be a bit more helpful:
Non-hex character used for Unicode escape: " (34)
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