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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil) in IDNA code
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 16:22:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluaddy6dme.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <k8zznlyhp41.fsf@slsf86.stgl.sel.alcatel.de> (Colin Marquardt's message of "Wed, 07 May 2003 15:18:22 +0200")

Colin Marquardt <c.marquardt@alcatel.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I got the gnus-CURRENT-20030506 CVS snapshot (after running Oort
> 0.12 succesfully) and now encounter a problem when wanting to send
> mail. Here is the backtrace:
>
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)
>   substring(nil -1)
>   (string= (substring string (1- ...)) "\n")
>   (if (string= (substring string ...) "\n") (substring string 0 (1- ...)) string)
>   (if (null proc) (error "Cannot start idn application") (idna-to-ascii-response-clear) (process-send-string proc (concat str "\n")) (setq string (idna-to-ascii-response)) (if (string= ... "\n") (substring string 0 ...) string))
>   (let ((proc ...) string) (if (null proc) (error "Cannot start idn application") (idna-to-ascii-response-clear) (process-send-string proc ...) (setq string ...) (if ... ... string)))
>   idna-to-ascii("alcatel.de")

Try this patch:

--- idna.el.~1.3.~	Wed Feb 26 19:26:31 2003
+++ idna.el	Wed May  7 16:19:55 2003
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
       (idna-to-ascii-response-clear)
       (process-send-string proc (concat str "\n"))
       (setq string (idna-to-ascii-response))
-      (if (string= (substring string (1- (length string))) "\n")
+      (if (and string (string= (substring string (1- (length string))) "\n"))
 	  (substring string 0 (1- (length string)))
 	string))))
 
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
       (idna-to-unicode-response-clear)
       (process-send-string proc (concat str "\n"))
       (setq string (idna-to-unicode-response))
-      (if (string= (substring string (1- (length string))) "\n")
+      (if (and string (string= (substring string (1- (length string))) "\n"))
 	  (substring string 0 (1- (length string)))
 	string))))
 
> I don't have any of the IDN support installed.
>
> gnus-use-idna's value is t

I think you have idna.el installed, at least, since gnus-use-idna is
nil if you don't.

> I guess I can easily customize these variables to be nil, but things
> should work out of the box. This is on a Solaris 5.8 machine in case
> it matters. I don't think I have anything suspicious in my setup, but
> I'm wondering why other people don't have this problem apparently?

They probably don't have idna.el installed, or have both idna.el and
the idn command line utility installed,




  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-07 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-07 13:18 Colin Marquardt
2003-05-07 14:22 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2003-05-07 14:54   ` Colin Marquardt

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