Text Props and Strings

[Óscar Fuentes]

Following the example of the info node with that title on the Elisp
manual, I evaluate

(insert #("foo bar" 0 3 (face bold) 3 4 nil 4 7 (face italic)))

on the *scratch* buffer, but the string "foo bar" is inserted as normal
text, without properties (The font supports bold and italic)

 Same result with

(insert #("x" 0 1 (face (:foreground "red"))))

So the properties on the string are ignored. What I'm missing?

Using GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of
2010-09-16