copying control characters is broken.

copying control characters is broken.

[Chuck Bernard]

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In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.7, X toolkit)
 of 2004-10-18 on slbuilds
configured using `configure  --with-gcc=no'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: en_US
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: C
  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_US
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_US
  value of $LC_TIME: en_US
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Place a control character in the text ^L (control-L).
Delete region which contains the control character using either
kill-line or kill-region.

Finally paste the region in a new area with the yank command.
The ^L will be changed for a null char (^@) and placed at the
end of the yanked region.

This is a problem because most of our source code has ^L (line feeds)
between every function. Cutting and pasting gives null characters here
and there. 

Thanks, chuck@logicvision.com


Recent input:
<return> S o m e <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> T e x t <return> C-q C-l <return> t e s 
t <backspace> <backspace> x t <return> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> M-m <C-end> C-d <return> <return> <return> C-y 
<pause> <pause> <pause> <pause> <pause> <up> <up> <up> 
M-m <down> <down> <down> M-d <return> <return> C-y 
<return> <up> C-x = <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
C-x = <down> <down> <return> <return> t e x t SPC C-q 
C-l SPC m o r e <home> M-k C-y <return> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
Loading ~chuck/.emacs-19.34...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Mark set [3 times]
Loading view...done
Undo! [5 times]
Mark set [2 times]
Char: C-@ (00, 0, 0x0) point=27 of 28 (93%) column 0 
Char: C-l (014, 12, 0xc) point=7 of 28 (21%) column 0 
Mark set
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