bug#17702: 24.3; insert-char no longer inserts "bell" control character

[Josh]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:

In Emacs 24.3, typing
   C-x 8 RET bell RET
results in character #x1f541 being inserted (which on my system is
displayed as a box with text 01F 514 inside).

I would expect the command to insert character #x7 (ASCII BEL
character, C-g) instead, which is also the behaviour that I get in
Emacs 23.4.

Is there a reason you can't use `C-q C-g' to insert this character?