23.0.60; Error with :name and malfunctioning

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

When launching with -Q --debug-init and inserting the line

	(message ".¡Ṁüßtè VéřşîÖñ — Ääħ ≥ 21 sêîņ,  
ḟûŕ ø,Ø2€¿")

into the scratch buffer GNU Emacs gets rather dysfunctional. The  
scroll-bar of one window is not drawn, echo-area reports

        Wrong type argument: listp, :name

The cause can be the EM DASH ``—´´ (explanation taken from an  
older GNU Emacs 23.0.60):

        character: — (8212, #o20024, #x2014)
preferred charset: gb18030 (GB18030)
       code point: 0xA1AA
           syntax: _    which means: symbol
         category: c:Chinese j:Japanese
      buffer code: #xE2 #x80 #x94
        file code: #xE2 #x80 #x94 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
          display: by this font (glyph code)
     -b&h-lucida sans typewriter-medium-r-normal--10-98-74-74-m-60- 
iso10646-1 (#x2014)

or by the GREATER-THAN OR EQUAL TO SIGN ``≥´´ (explanation taken  
from an older GNU Emacs 23.0.60):

        character: ≥ (8805, #o21145, #x2265)
preferred charset: gb18030 (GB18030)
       code point: 0xA1DD
           syntax: .    which means: punctuation
         category: c:Chinese h:Korean
      buffer code: #xE2 #x89 #xA5
        file code: #xE2 #x89 #xA5 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
          display: by this font (glyph code)
     -b&h-lucida sans typewriter-medium-r-normal--10-98-74-74-m-60- 
iso10646-1 (#x2265)

or by the EURO SIGN ``€´´ (explanation taken from an older GNU  
Emacs 23.0.60):

        character: € (8364, #o20254, #x20ac)
preferred charset: gb18030 (GB18030)
       code point: 0xA2E3
           syntax: _    which means: symbol
         category: c:Chinese h:Korean j:Japanese
      buffer code: #xE2 #x82 #xAC
        file code: #xE2 #x82 #xAC (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
          display: by this font (glyph code)
     -b&h-lucida sans typewriter-medium-r-normal--10-98-74-74-m-60- 
iso10646-1 (#x20AC)

i.e. a (message "...") in *scratch* with one of these instead of ``... 
´´ creates the functionlessness.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d  
scroll bars)
 of 2007-12-15 on Latsche.local
Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version  
11.0.40400000
configured using `configure  '--without-gtk' '--without-sound' '-- 
without-pop' '--with-xpm' '--with-x-toolkit=lucid' '--with-jpeg' '-- 
with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/ 
Application Support/Emacs/calendar23:/Library/Application Support/ 
Emacs/caml:/Library/Application Support/Emacs:/sw/share/emacs21/site- 
lisp/elib' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/lib/freetype219/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/ 
fontconfig2/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11R7/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/pkgconfig:/ 
sw/lib/system-openssl/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/ 
pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/clamXav/lib/pkgconfig'  
'CPPFLAGS=-no-cpp-precomp -D__BIND_NOSTATIC -I/usr/include/openssl -I/ 
sw/include/pango-1.0 -I/sw/lib/freetype219/include -I/sw/lib/ 
freetype219/include/freetype2 -I/sw/lib/fontconfig2/include -I/sw/ 
include -I/usr/local/include -idirafter /usr/X11R6/include'  
'CXXFLAGS=-no-cpp-precomp -I/usr/include/openssl -I/sw/include/ 
pango-1.0 -I/sw/lib/freetype219/include -I/sw/lib/freetype219/include/ 
freetype2 -I/sw/lib/fontconfig2/include -I/sw/include/libpng12 -I/usr/ 
local/include -I/sw/include' 'CFLAGS=-pipe -bind_at_load -fPIC - 
mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -O0 -mpim-altivec -ftree-vectorize -foptimize- 
register-move -freorder-blocks -freorder-blocks-and-partition - 
fthread-jumps -fpeephole -fno-crossjumping' 'LDFLAGS=-dead_strip - 
multiply_defined suppress -bind_at_load -L/sw/lib/freetype219/lib -L/ 
sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib -L/sw/lib/ncurses -L/usr/local/lib -L/sw/lib''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t


--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen

  Pete

One cannot live by television, video games, top ten CDs, and dumb  
movies alone
                                – Amiri Baraka, 1999