GNU bug report logs - #14782
24.3.50; flyspell-mode garbles accents in terminal clients

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack <at> upsilon.cc>

Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:20:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack <at> upsilon.cc>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 14782 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14782: 24.3.50; flyspell-mode garbles accents in terminal clients
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 20:12:26 -0400

> then in a terminal:

>   $ emacsclient -t foo.txt
>   conférence                    # this works fine
>   M-x flyspell-mode
>   conférence                    # this gives garbled output

The problem was in sit-for.
I installed the patch below which should fix it,


        Stefan


=== modified file 'lisp/subr.el'
--- lisp/subr.el	2013-07-04 09:39:36 +0000
+++ lisp/subr.el	2013-07-06 00:06:02 +0000
@@ -2200,7 +2196,10 @@
     (or nodisp (redisplay)))
    (t
     (or nodisp (redisplay))
-    (let ((read (read-event nil nil seconds)))
+    ;; FIXME: we should not read-event here at all, because it's much too
+    ;; difficult to reliably "undo" a read-event by pushing it onto
+    ;; unread-command-events.
+    (let ((read (read-event nil t seconds)))
       (or (null read)
 	  (progn
 	    ;; If last command was a prefix arg, e.g. C-u, push this event onto
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