GNU bug report logs - #10299
Emacs doesn't handle Unicode characters in keyboard layout on MS Windows

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Joakim Hårsman <joakim.harsman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:42:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 10299 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10299 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, joakim.harsman <at> gmail.com, jasonr <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10299: Emacs doesn't handle Unicode characters in keyboard
	layout on MS Windows
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:51:12 +0900

In article <E1Rb4hn-0002C6-5C <at> fencepost.gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I don't think there any "clobbering".  Emacs deliberately converts the
> Unicode characters to the current locale's ANSI codepage.  I think
> (but I'm not sure) the reason is that Emacs cannot use UTF-16 for
> keyboard input.  Perhaps Jason and Handa-san could comment on this.

Currently only ASCII compatible coding system can be used
for keyboard-coding-system.  But, keyboard-coding-system is
for decoding tty input.  On graphic device, Emacs can decode
a system event directly.  For instance, handle_one_event (in
xterm.c) decodes the output of XIM (X Input Method)
directly.

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Kenichi Handa
handa <at> m17n.org
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