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

$ emacs -q --no-site-file
C-x RET c utf-8 RET C-x C-f test-utf-8.txt RET

The first line contains escape sequences.  Is this intended behaviour?
I would have though that the proper unicode characters would have been
displayed, or at least an empty block would have if the fontset
doesn't have the character.

See
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-charsets/2002OctDec/0106.html
for more information.

In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-03-22 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  i386-debian-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=athena --without-gif'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: sv_SE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Recent input:
* t r <tab> <return> C-x 1 <C-home> <next> C-x k <return> 
<up> <up> <down> <down> ! <down> SPC q C-c C-s s n 
n n n n n n n SPC M-u SPC M-u p M-u C-x <return> c 
<up> <return> C-x C-f <up> <return> C-x k <return> 
C-x <return> f C-g C-x <return> c <up> <return> C-x 
C-f <up> <up> <up> <up> <return> C-x 1 <C-home> <C-end> 
<C-home> <C-end> C-x k <return> <up> SPC SPC n <help-echo> 
<down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> <help-echo> <down-mouse-2> 
<mouse-2> ! ! q C-c C-s s l . M-x r e p o r <tab> 
<return>

Recent messages:
Saving /home/jas/.newsrc...
Wrote /home/jas/.newsrc
Saving /home/jas/.newsrc...done
Saving /home/jas/.newsrc.eld...
Saving file /home/jas/.newsrc.eld...
Wrote /home/jas/.newsrc.eld
Saving /home/jas/.newsrc.eld...done
Invalid face text property value: minibuffer-prompt [26 times]
Loading emacsbug (source)...done
Invalid face text property value: minibuffer-prompt [88 times]