Re: Coding system conversion error

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, "Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:
>>      * xselect.c (lisp_data_to_selection_data): If OBJ is a non-ASCII
>>      multibyte string, signal an error instead of aborting.

> The error message can be improved if you put it in 
> x_handle_selection_request instead (lisp_data_to_selection_data is only 
> called from there).  Then you can get the target_symbol in to the error 
> text, which otherwise can be hard to know.

That's true.  But I think the error should be signaled just
before we use the data.  Otherwise, the other code will slip
into between the call of Fsignal and the place where the
data is used.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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