On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 23:16 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
 I can reproduce with plain (make-temp-file "/tmp/foo"), but
only if
 latin-unity is enabled.  Its write-region hook stuff doesn't seem to
 support this (from docstring of `write-region'):
 
     Kludgy feature: if START is a string, then that string is written
     to the file, instead of any buffer contents, and END is ignored. 
Indeed; a smaller reproducer is just to do (latin-unity-install)
followed by (write-region "" nil "/tmp/foobar")