bug#12090: 24.1.50; "C-h c" mutilates M-c when c is a non-ASCII character

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> But then this fragment (see the line marked with "<<<<<<<"):
>
>         if (!INTEGERP (key)
>             || EQ (key, meta_prefix_char)
>             || (XINT (key) & meta_modifier))
>           {
>             args[len++] = Fsingle_key_description (meta_prefix_char, Qnil);
>             args[len++] = sep;
>             if (EQ (key, meta_prefix_char))
>               continue;
>           }
>         else
>           XSETINT (key, (XINT (key) | meta_modifier) & ~0x80);  <<<<<<<<
>
> resets the 0x80 bit of 0x5d0, converting it to 0x550 in the process,
> which yields the Armenian character shown above.

This was added in commit b042457 back in 2004, and is most likely
unintented.  Fixed in trunk.

Andreas.

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