bug#14368: 24.3.50; Big screw: multibyte characters become unibyte

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 12:49:07 -0400
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> 
> I did some debugging and found that the mistaken
> replacement of multibyte characters with unibyte
> occurs in quail-start-translation.
> 
> However, the bug is probably not in quail.el, because quail.el has not
> changed since the start of the year, and the last change log entry was
> long before that.
> 
> Can someone who understands quail please investigate this bug?

Can you reproduce it starting with "emacs -Q"?  I tried, but couldn't.