Subject: Re: bug#31829: 27.0.50;

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:41:54 +0300

> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 21:17:15 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> >   (gdb) p/x c
> >   $1 = 0xb21a5a  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> 
> And I see the same problem in Emacs 26.1 and in its pretests.

A 16-year old bug rears its ugly head.  It caused us to decide that
text is UTF-8 encoded, when it actually included invalid byte
sequences.

Should be fixed now on the emacs-26 branch.