1. On unix-like OS visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdős in firefox 2. Copy its link 3. Paste it with mouse wheel. Result: Paul_Erd\u0151s 4. Paste it with M-x clipboard-yank. Result: Paul_Erdős The bug is confirmed by independent user here: http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/13472/pasting-unicode-from-external-applications-with-mouse-wheel-on-unix?noredirect=1#comment20167_13472 In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.8) of 2015-05-19 on lcy01-07 Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000 System Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Configured using: `configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr '--includedir=${prefix}/include' '--mandir=${prefix}/share/man' '--infodir=${prefix}/share/info' --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var '--libdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' '--libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --program-suffix=-snapshot --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro'' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Text Minor modes in effect: csv-field-index-mode: t diff-auto-refine-mode: t TeX-PDF-mode: t tabbar-mwheel-mode: t tabbar-mode: t helm-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t async-bytecomp-package-mode: t ido-everywhere: t cua-mode: t global-auto-revert-mode: t global-subword-mode: t subword-mode: t recentf-mode: t global-whitespace-mode: t show-paren-mode: t delete-selection-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t Recent messages: Mark set [2 times] Undo! 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