Subject: bug#52295: 28.0.90; Killing text results in coding system complaint

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 16:05:07 +0200

> From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 13:51:32 +0800
> 
> Po Lu <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > `globals_of_w32select' is called, but QANSICP is nil:
> >
> >   Fprint (QANSICP, Qexternal_debugging_output);
> >
> > Prints "nil" onto the console.
> 
> ??? It appears that coding_from_cp is actually returning nil in this
> case.
> 
> This must be a bug in intern, because I don't see how else it could
> possibly return nil.

It could also be some memory-related snafu, or some stupid omission
during startup when we run on Windows 9X.