bug#4037: marked as done (Characters garbled in self-insert-command)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #4037,
regarding Characters garbled in self-insert-command
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> Characters garbled in self-insert-command
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> Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:27:42 +0300
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
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> I just noticed a regression against Emacs 22.
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> In GNU Emacs 23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) typing
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>   C-u 5 C-x 8 ' a
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>   á\341\341\341á
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> whereas in GNU Emacs 22.1.1 typing the same correctly inserts
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>   ááááá
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> The command `self-insert-command' in Emacs 23 inserts the first
> and the last characters without any modifications, but applies
> the following conversion for the remaining characters:
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>         /* Add the offset to the character, for Finsert_char.
>            We pass internal_self_insert the unmodified character
>            because it itself does this offsetting.  */
>         if (! NILP (current_buffer->enable_multibyte_characters))
>           modified_char = unibyte_char_to_multibyte (modified_char);
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> Commenting out the above 2 lines produces the correct result.
> However, I'm not sure what is the right fix.
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> Juri Linkov
> http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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> Re: bug#4240: 23.1.50; C-u doesn't work with Swedish characters
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> Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:52:21 +0300
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> > From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> > Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:23:25 +0900
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> > In article <address@hidden>, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
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> > >>> > Please see bug#4037:
> > >>> > http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=4037
> > >>> > I received no confirmation that my proposed fix is correct.
> > >>> I think those two lines are not necessary anymore and should be
> > >>> removed (together with the comments which explain their need).  I
> > >>> think they belong to the old pre-unicode days when raw eight-bit
> > >>> characters needed such special treatment.
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> > > I believe you're right.  Nowadays, the keyboard-decoding should always
> > > take place before we get to that point.
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> > Sorry for the late responce on this matter.  Yes, that
> > unibyte->multibyte conversion is not necessary.  I've just
> > installed a fix.
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> Thanks.  I'm closing the two related bug reports.
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