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[Richard Stallman]

Can someone please work on this?

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Subject: Re: Character problems 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 24 Mar 2002 08:53:14 MST."
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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:02:02 -0600
From: Ed Reingold <address@hidden>
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I entered Emacs version 21.1 with the -q option over a simple telnet.  I then
evaluate (in succession):

     (setq junk '(("Ê" . "\\^{E}") ("Ë" . "\\\"{E}")))
      --> (("Ê" . "\\^{E}") ("Ë" . "\\\"{E}"))

     (assoc "Ë" junk) --> ("Ë" . "\\\"{E}")

     (standard-display-european nil) --> [39]

     (assoc "Ë" junk) --> nil

     (standard-display-european t) --> [39]

     (assoc "Ë" junk) --> nil

     (assoc "Ë" junk) --> nil

Notice that the assoc worked the first time, but then fails.  Why would the 
workings of assoc (which has nothing to do with the display be affected?!!!
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