bug#14782: 24.3.50; flyspell-mode garbles accents in terminal clients

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

Consider the following 3 lines:

  conférence
  confÃ\251rence
  conférence

all 3 have been inserted typing exactly the same characters in a
terminal emacsclient (i.e. emacsclient -t)

- the first on, which shows the expected behavior, has been obtained
  with flyspell-mode turned off

- the second one, with garbled characters near the attempt to insert the
  character "é" (letter "e" with an acute accent on top), has been
  obtained with flyspell-mode turned on

- the third one has been obtained with flyspell-mode turned on, but by
  typing "confe" (without accent), then hitting backspace, then
  restarting with "é" (letter "e" with accent). I.e. it seems that
  accented letters at the beginning of words / after spaces are fine,
  whereas they garble the input when they're in the middle or at the end
  of words

The problem does not manifest itself in GUI clients (i.e. emacsclient
-c) or in stand-alone Emacs instances that do not use Emacs server.


Cheers.


PS whereas I do use viper mode, and I'm using it to report this bug, I
   can reproduce the bug using "emacs -Q", then activating server-mode
   in it, and connecting terminal-based emacsclients.


In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.2)
 of 2013-07-01 on dex, modified by Debian
 (emacs-snapshot package, version 2:20130701-1)
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11204000
System Description:     Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid)

Configured using:
 `configure --build x86_64-linux-gnu --host x86_64-linux-gnu
 --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man
 --with-pop=yes
 
--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.3.50/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.3.50/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
 --without-compress-info --with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
 --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-imagemagick=yes
 CFLAGS='-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2'
 CPPFLAGS='-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' LDFLAGS='-g -Wl,--as-needed
 -znocombreloc''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MONETARY: it_IT.utf8
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: it_IT.utf8
  value of $LC_TIME: it_IT.utf8
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  flyspell-mode: t
  winner-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  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
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
RET C h e e r s . ESC ESC < C-x C-s j j j ESC [ 6 ~ 
ESC [ 6 ~ ESC [ 5 ~ ESC < j j j C-x C-s A ESC x C-g 
C-g C-x C-s C-x C-s C-x # ESC [ > 1 ; 3 4 0 6 ; 0 c 
i p e r c h é RET ESC x f l y s p TAB C-g DEL DEL DEL 
DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL c o n f é r e n c e SPC DEL RET 
ESC x f l s p DEL DEL u s DEL DEL y s p TAB m o TAB 
RET C-c d f r RET c o n f à e n c e ESC 0 o c 
o n f à e n c e DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL 
f SPC DEL é r e n c e ESC j j i c o n f ` DEL é DEL 
e DEL é r e n c e ESC d d C-x C-c j d d . . i c o n 
f é r e n c e <return> M-x C-g <backspace> a SPC <backspace> 
<backspace> <return> c o n f é r e n c e <escape> u 
j j j j j l l C-l M-x r e p o r t <tab> b <tab> <return> 
C-g M-x b u <tab> g <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> r e p o r t - e m a <tab> <return> f l 
y s p e l l - m o d e SPC i n SPC <switch-frame> C-g 
C-x C-c C-g M-x <up> <return>

Recent messages:
Undo!
line-move-1: End of buffer [5 times]
call-interactively: End of buffer [2 times]
Making completion list...
Quit
Making completion list...
Back to top level.
When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0
Quit
(No files need saving)
Quit

Load-path shadows:
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/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/puppet-mode
/home/zack/.emacs.d/elpa/tabulated-list-20120406.2251/tabulated-list hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.3.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/tabulated-list
/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/auctex/tex-info hides 
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/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/auctex/tex-mik hides 
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/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/auctex/tex-buf hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-buf
/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/auctex/tex-jp hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-jp
/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/auctex/tex-bar hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-bar
/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/auctex/context-en hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/context-en
/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/auctex/tex-fold hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-fold
/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/auctex/toolbar-x hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/toolbar-x
/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/auctex/bib-cite hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/bib-cite
/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/auctex/texmathp hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/texmathp

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