[bzr revision 109796]

Have a look at the attached file, containing a single character.
(It's transmitted as binary to avoid e-mail encoding issues).  It
contains a single, four-byte UTF-8 encoded character (0xF4 0xB5 0x87
0x9E, which would map to the non-existent Unicode character code
U+1351DE).  If I load this file as UTF-8 encoded, Emacs gives this as
the output of `C-u C-x =':

               position: 1 of 2 (0%), column: 0
              character: 二 (displayed as 二) (codepoint 20108, #o47214, #x4e8c)
      preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
  code point in charset: 0x4E8C
                 syntax: w 	which means: word
               category: .:Base, C:2-byte han, L:Left-to-right (strong), c:Chinese, h:Korean, j:Japanese, |:line breakable
               to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME"
            buffer code: #xE4 #xBA #x8C
              file code: #xE4 #xBA #x8C (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
                display: by this font (glyph code)
      xft:-unknown-SimSun-normal-normal-normal-*-24-*-*-*-d-0-iso10646-1 (#x460)

  Character code properties: customize what to show
    name: CJK IDEOGRAPH-4E8C
    general-category: Lo (Letter, Other)
    decomposition: (20108) ('二')

Look what Emacs says about the file code.  If I save this
one-character file as UTF-8, the character code stays as-is.

This behaviour is clearly wrong.  I suspect that Emacs is using such a
high character code for internal representation of the `emacs-mule'
encoding.  However, the user must not see this.  Instead, such
characters must be converted to correct UTF-8.


    Werner


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In GNU Emacs 24.2.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.9)
 of 2012-08-28 on linux-nvf0
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11004000
Configured using:
 `configure 'MAKEINFO=/usr/bin/makeinfo' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk''

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Summary

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<return> w b u g - e m <tab> <tab> <tab> <tab> <tab> 
<tab> <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <tab> <tab> C-c 
C-q y M-x w r i t e - e m <tab> C-g C-h a b u g <return> 
<M-next> C-x 1 M-x r e p r t <backspace> <backspace> 
o r t - e m <tab> <return>

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