Subject: bug#6721: X11 Compound Text vs ISO 2022

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:35:46 +0100

David De La Harpe Golden <[email-masked]> writes:

> James Cloos raised on emacs-devel:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-07/msg00255.html
>
> The problem that emacs has been sending "compound-text" using charsets
> not generally supported by other X11 clients.   The spec for compound
> text seems clear enough, emacs shouldn't do that (though maybe should
> remain permissive in what it accepts).

(This bug report unfortunately got no response at the time.)

I had a look at the emacs-devel URL, but I'm still not quite sure in
what circumstances Emacs sends `compound-text' to other X clients.  Is
this something you still see in more recent Emacs versions, and if so --
do you have a recipe to reproduce this bug?

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