Clipboard and coding systems

[Jérôme Marant]

Hi,

We (Debian) recently received a bug report related to the clipboard
and coding systems (http://bugs.debian.org/276098).

Here is a way to reproduce the weirdness.

(Emacs 21.3 with Latin-9 language environment)

1) Start Emacs, type `abéècd' in a fresh buffer, copy the typed text
and paste it within the following command in a Xterm:

amboise:~$ echo 'abéècd' > foo

Then,

amboise:~$ hex foo
0x00000000: 61 62 e9 e8 63 64 0a    -                         abéècdJ

2) Start Emacs, type `abéècd' in a fresh buffer, copy the typed text,
_exit from Emacs_ and paste within the following command in a Xterm:

amboise:~$ echo 'abéècd' > foo

Then,

amboise:~$ hex foo
0x00000000: 61 62 8e e9 8e e8 63 64 - 0a                      ab....cdJ

Can this be explained or is it a bug?

Thanks.

-- 
Jérôme Marant