(standard-display-european) and drop of characters in *Messages*

[Nils Klarlund]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.93.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195)
 of 2002-12-07 on VALETTA
configured using `configure --with-gcc (2.95)'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

execute these four lines:

(defun test () 
  (message "abcdefghijdflj %s" last-command-event))
(add-hook 'pre-command-hook 'test)
(standard-display-european 1)

then, all messages are echoed normally *except* that only the first
character "a" of the messages is recorded in the *Messages* buffer

ok, so (standard-display-european) is semi-obsolete, I'll try to use
the suggested alternative