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> From: MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr>
> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 01:09:06 +0100
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> > C-u C-\ french-prefix RE
> > 
> > lets you enter é by typing 'e
> 
> Curious. 'e writes 'e, and é writes \351

What is the value returned by terminal-coding-system on your system?
And what is your locale (the value of environment variables LC_ALL or
LANG)?