Subject: bug#23628: 25.1.50; wrong saving of unicode characters into kill ring

From: Peter Münster <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 10:28:36 +0200

On Fri, May 27 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Not reproducible on my system.  (Btw, you omitted the details about
> your OS and build.)

Sorry, by mistake I killed too much...

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In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.30)
 of 2016-05-25 built on micropit
Repository revision: 1ee91bf89176251f6e399c8436dca0248cdd6f6b
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11702000
System Description:	openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64)
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> How did you type "€",

"Alt Gr + e" because I have this line in my .Xmodmap:
keycode  26 = e E EuroSign EuroSign EuroSign EuroSign

But "M-x insert-char" and then "euro sign" works too.

> and what does Emacs say when you type "C-u C-x =" with the cursor on
> that character?

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             position: 35 of 36 (94%), column: 1
            character: € (displayed as €) (codepoint 8364, #o20254, #x20ac)
    preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
code point in charset: 0x20AC
               script: symbol
               syntax: _ 	which means: symbol
             category: .:Base, c:Chinese, h:Korean, j:Japanese
             to input: type "C-x 8 RET 20ac" or "C-x 8 RET EURO SIGN"
          buffer code: #xE2 #x82 #xAC
            file code: #xE2 #x82 #xAC (encoded by coding system prefer-utf-8-unix)
              display: by this font (glyph code)
    xft:-adobe-Source Code Pro-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x446)

Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: EURO SIGN
  general-category: Sc (Symbol, Currency)
  decomposition: (8364) ('€')

There are text properties here:
  fontified            t
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           Peter