Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> I cannot reproduce this.
>
> Are you using XEmacs, maybe?

No, but I should have mentioned that I'm using MacOSX 10.4.11 (PPC):

In GNU Emacs 23.1.90.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, NS apple-appkit-824.48)
 of 2009-12-14 on goethe.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.824
configured using `configure  '--with-ns''

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: nil
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Summary

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-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

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BTW, it also exports the "<XY>" string: