Sébastien Vauban wrote:
>Hello,

>Here a trace of the problem that occurs when I capture some text from an
>email, for archive purpose.

>--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range 35 42)
>  format("%.30s" #("Re: Gestionnaire de r\x00e9visions pour \x00e9\ diteur LaTeX sous Windows" 20 29 (charset iso-8859-15) 35 42 (charset iso-8859-15)))
>  org-replace-escapes("Email from %f: %.30s" (("%c") ("%F" . #("Denis Bitouz\x00e9 <dbitouze.no@spam.wanadoo.fr>" 6 13 ...)) ("%f" . "Denis Bitouz\x00e9") ("%T") ("%t" . "?") ("%s" . #("Re: Gestionnaire de r\x00e9visions pour \x00e9\ diteur LaTeX sous Windows" 20 29 ... 35 42 ...)) ("%m" . "20100715150256.4f029e84@drums")))
>  org-email-link-description()
>  org-gnus-store-link()
>  run-hook-with-args-until-success(org-gnus-store-link)
>  org-store-link(nil)
>  org-capture(nil)
>  call-interactively(org-capture nil nil)
>--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

>I guess it's somehow related to the accents in the mail title?  Not sure I
>understand the details of the trace, but the capture works in many other
>cases, so the accents could be the differentiating factor (I don't have enough
>history, yet, to assert this).

Your message's user agent tells me, that you use Emacs 23.1 -- and
this looks like Emacs bug #5306[1].

The Attached patch avoids this bug by removing all text properties from
the subject (the same is done in org-wl.el).

HTH,
  -- David

[1] http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=
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