1 files changed, 22 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/search.c b/src/search.c
index bdd2ef92843..f9b45c8eca6 100644
--- a/src/search.c
+++ b/src/search.c
@@ -2323,13 +2323,21 @@ since only regular expressions have distinguished subexpressions.  */)
                       substart = search_regs.start[sub];
                       subend = search_regs.end[sub];
                     }
-                  else if (c >= '1' && c <= '9' && c <= search_regs.num_regs + '0')
+                  else if (c >= '1' && c <= '9')
                     {
-                      if (search_regs.start[c - '0'] >= 0)
+                      if (search_regs.start[c - '0'] >= 0
+                          && c <= search_regs.num_regs + '0')
                         {
                           substart = search_regs.start[c - '0'];
                           subend = search_regs.end[c - '0'];
                         }
+                      else
+                        {
+                          /* If that subexp did not match,
+                             replace \\N with nothing.  */
+                          substart = 0;
+                          subend = 0;
+                        }
                     }
                   else if (c == '\\')
                     delbackslash = 1;
@@ -2507,8 +2515,16 @@ since only regular expressions have distinguished subexpressions.  */)
         }
 
       if (really_changed)
-        newtext = make_string (substed, substed_len);
+        {
+          if (buf_multibyte)
+            {
+              int nchars = multibyte_chars_in_text (substed, substed_len);
 
+              newtext = make_multibyte_string (substed, nchars, substed_len);
+            }
+          else
+            newtext = make_unibyte_string (substed, substed_len);
+        }
       xfree (substed);
     }
 
@@ -2900,3 +2916,6 @@ syms_of_search ()
   defsubr (&Sset_match_data);
   defsubr (&Sregexp_quote);
 }
+
+/* arch-tag: a6059d79-0552-4f14-a2cb-d379a4e3c78f
+   (do not change this comment) */