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Emacs doesn't handle Unicode characters in keyboard layout on MS Windows

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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 10299 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Joakim Hårsman <joakim.harsman <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#10299: Emacs doesn't handle Unicode characters in keyboard layout on MS Windows
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:08:30 +0100

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 15:40, Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
> It tries to use Unicode if the Windows input method is sending it.  The
> problem here is that there is no standard for Windows input methods, so
> even the ones built into Windows act differently for different languages
> and for the same language across different versions of Windows.
>
> Some input methods will send WM_UNICHAR messages with the Unicode
> character, which can be intercepted before they are turned into question
> marks by Windows. These will just work with Emacs.
>
> Others will send character codes corresponding to the codepoints in the
> default Windows codepage for that language (regardless of your system
> codepage). These can be handled by changing keyboard-coding-system
> within Emacs.
>
> Others will not send anything useful unless your system codepage is set
> appropriately for the language being input.
>
> It sounds like this one may be in the third category.

Since Windows can handle this there must be a way to do it. But maybe
there are no docs from MS that explains how?

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