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> An UTF-8 file (attached) with these three characters:
> U+0022 U+00010380 U+0022
> shows with "emacs -nw":
> "\360\220\216\200"
> which is not usable at all. The file displays correctly if I cat it.
>
> I tried a bunch of other characters outside the BMP, all of which
> fail in the same way. Characters in the BMP work nicely.
>
> Apparently, emacs 22 shows a question mark instead of "\360\220\216\200"
> but trying to delete the question mark character with backspace turn it into
> "\360\220\216".

Do we support display/editing of characters outside the BMP?