On 2/20/07, ken wrote: > When I copy-n-paste "—" into an emacs buffer, one of the (several) bytes > displayed is represented by '\224'. In a unibyte buffer, you mean? Does it appear correctly if you do M-: (set-buffer-multibyte t) ? > Have you tried to copy-n-paste "—" into an emacs buffer? > What do you get? I get an em dash (U+2014). I'm starting Emacs in multibyte mode (the default). Juanma