Re: Emacs kill problem

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Csaba <danswer@gmail.com> wrote:
> This seems like a bug - but I imagine
> that it's been dealt with since my version,
> 21.3.1 from 2004-03-10 on Win XP Pro -
> not sure how to search for it.
>
> If I have the following line:
> Marko Petkovšek
> then emacs is very unhappy if I try
> to kill the line (ctrl+k) or wipe it out
> (ctrl+w).  Emacs will do it, but complain
> (ring the bell) and it will not place the
> removed entry into the yank buffer
> (ie. doing ctrl+y will not recover it),
> though I can undo the operation with
> ctrl+x,u
>
> In my emacs, that š appears as \232
> (In other words I see "\232" (without
> the quotes) and that is corresponds
> to š)
>
> Would someone please let me know
> whether this has been fixed or if a but
> report should be filed.

I am sure it has been fixed. Please try the pretest for Emacs 23.
Binaries are available here if you do not want to compile it yourself:

   http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/