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

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Message #83 received at 10299 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10299 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Joakim Hårsman <joakim.harsman <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#10299: Emacs doesn't handle Unicode characters in keyboard
	layout on MS Windows
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:31:58 +0800

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

>> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:31:55 +0100
>> From: Joakim Hårsman <joakim.harsman <at> gmail.com>

>> So if I press something which gives U+2218 RING OPERATOR, I get a
>> WM_CHAR event with a wParam of 2228248 or 0x220018.
>
> ??? UTF-16 encodes the characters in the BMP as themselves, i.e. a
> single 16-bit value that is numerically identical to the codepoint.
> That is, you should have gotten 0x2218.  What am I missing?

It looks like there is an endianness mismatch somewhere.

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