Re: search-forward-regexp has stopped working on multibyte

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Place a few multibyte characters in the buffer, say with
>     C-u C-\ latin-1-prefix RET "a "o "s
>
>     Copy them into the killring.  Type
>       M-: (search-forward-regexp (regexp-quote "
>     Press C-y and then
>       ")) RET
>
>     And nothing gets found.  Not good.
>
> It doesn't fail for me.

I can't reproduce it at the moment.  Maybe the language environment
(inadvertantly broken for a while on my system) had something to with
it.  But even with a similarly broken setting of LC_CTYPE I could not
reproduce the effect I had seen.

Anyway, it was certainly related to case conversion since binding
case-fold-search to nil made the strings be found again.  Maybe
something has changed in that area.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum