* I started emacs with emacs -Q -nw * I turned on icomplete by typing ESC x i c o m p l e t e RET * I attempted to insert my favorite character, "PILE OF POO", by typing C-x 8 RET p i l e RET * I saw an error in the echo area: read-char-by-name: Invalid character * I did not see my beloved character in the current buffer In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) of 2014-10-22 on ip-10-172-239-100 Repository revision: rgm@gnu.org-20141020192115-57qyk6ygie4c15vx System Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Configured using: `configure --without-x' Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: icomplete-mode: t tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-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 line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: ESC [ > 8 3 ; 4 0 1 0 0 ; 0 c ESC x i c o m p l e t e RET C-x 8 RET p i l e RET C-h l ESC x r e p o r t - e m a c s - RET Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Source file `/mnt/emacs/lisp/cus-start.el' newer than byte-compiled file read-char-by-name: Invalid character Type C-x 1 to delete the help window. Source file `/mnt/emacs/lisp/mail/emacsbug.el' newer than byte-compiled file Load-path shadows: /mnt/emacs/lisp/emulation/vip hides /mnt/emacs/lisp/obsolete/vip /mnt/emacs/lisp/emulation/tpu-edt hides /mnt/emacs/lisp/obsolete/tpu-edt /mnt/emacs/lisp/emulation/ws-mode hides /mnt/emacs/lisp/obsolete/ws-mode /mnt/emacs/lisp/emulation/tpu-mapper hides /mnt/emacs/lisp/obsolete/tpu-mapper /mnt/emacs/lisp/emulation/crisp hides /mnt/emacs/lisp/obsolete/crisp /mnt/emacs/lisp/progmodes/cc-compat hides /mnt/emacs/lisp/obsolete/cc-compat /mnt/emacs/lisp/emulation/vi hides /mnt/emacs/lisp/obsolete/vi /mnt/emacs/lisp/emulation/tpu-extras hides /mnt/emacs/lisp/obsolete/tpu-extras Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail regexp-opt rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils help-mode easymenu mule-util iso-transl cus-start cus-load icomplete xterm time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind gfilenotify multi-tty emacs) Memory information: ((conses 8 179617 4242) (symbols 24 36393 0) (miscs 20 37 136) (strings 16 77064 5781) (string-bytes 1 1408331) (vectors 8 8547) (vector-slots 4 409862 15748) (floats 8 60 609) (intervals 28 165 25) (buffers 512 12) (heap 1024 14171 1298))