Subject: bug#15166: 24.3.50; Isearch for an octal code

From: Dani Moncayo <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:23:10 +0200

Recipe from "emacs -Q":
  C-q 2 0 0 RET M-< C-s C-q 2 0 0 RET

I observe that Isearch fails; it's unable to find the character with
octal code `200'.

Why?  It should be able, no?

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2013-08-22 on LEG570
Bzr revision: 113971 [email-masked]
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/usr --enable-checking CFLAGS='-O0 -g3'
 CPPFLAGS='-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1 -I/c/usr/include''

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: ESN
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

-- 
Dani Moncayo