bug#4240: 23.1.50; C-u doesn't work with Swedish characters

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

I hit "C-u ä" expecting it to come out as "ääää".  Instead it comes out
as "ä\344\344ä".  I try "C-u C-u ä" and it comes out as "ä" followed by
fourteen "\344" and then a trailing "ä".  This happens no matter which
kind of repetition I'm doing, be it using C-u or using e.g. M-3.  It's
always the leading and the trailing character that come out right, all
of the other ones are "broken".

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/home/deniz/usr/share/emacs/23.1.50/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.5)
 of 2009-08-13 on stalin
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10603000
configured using `configure  '--without-rsvg' '--without-tiff'
'--without-xpm' '--prefix=/home/deniz/usr''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  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: en_US.utf8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-u ä <return> C-u C-u ä <return> M-5 M-0 ä <return>
C-1 C-0 u <return> C-1 C-0 ä M-x r e p o r t - e m
a c s - b u g f <return> <backspace> <return>

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