quail vs. -nw and the modeline

[Dan Jacobson]

I do
$ emacs --no-site-file -q
then C-\ and in the modeline I see the very nice correct Chinese characters 
"pin1 fu2"
However I add -nw
$ emacs --no-site-file -q -nw
and type C-\ and instead in the modeline I see jie2, meaning eyelash.
$ mmencode -q|tr -d = #on the two strings
ABF7B2C5   B7FB
Which shows that the string got mangled in the modeline, with BF7B
extracted and becoming B7FB. 

Furthermore, doing C-\ C-\ C-\ C-\... in emacs -nw makes the window go
up as a miscalculated modeline length is causing wrapping and leaving
modeline after modeline piling up at the bottom of the screen until
you hit C-l.

But you had better hit C-l when you have toggled off
toggle-input-method, or else it repaints the screen, then wraps,
jolting the whole window up.

$ env|egrep LC\|LANG
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_COLLATE=C
LANG=zh_TW.Big5
LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5
*messages*:
Loading quail...done
Loading quail/pypunct-b5...
Loading quail/PY-b5...done
Loading quail/Punct-b5...done
Loading quail/pypunct-b5...done
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