Subject: bug#17412: 24.3; Unicode key events broken, not usable in input method

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 21:17:47 -0400

> Perhaps we had expected that a user typed C as a character
> if C >= 256, not as a key to input another character.

Sounds like it, indeed, but since we have decoded chars by the time we
get to input-event processing, it doesn't seem very useful to prevent
users from using non-ASCII keys for input-methods.

IOW, we should try and lift this restriction,

        Stefan