this seems to be a misunderstanding how buffer encoding in emacs
works. Are you sure that both the source you're pasting from and your
buffer encoding are set to utf-8?
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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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pasting umlauts into emacs will create escaped characters
https://bu
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: emacs22
when pasting a text with umlauts into emacs will create escaped umlauts.
e.g. pasting "Universität für" into a utf8-encoded buffer will result in
"Universit\344t f\374r".
** Affects: emacs22 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: N