GNU bug report logs - #17412
24.3; Unicode key events broken, not usable in input method

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From: handa <at> gnu.org (K. Handa)
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: mail <at> muflax.com, 17412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17412: 24.3;
 Unicode key events broken, not usable in input method
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 08:23:50 +0900

In article <jwviopiki5k.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > Digging around in keyboard.c, I found that read_char() only passes
> > events with keycode < 256 (line 3050ff) to input-method-function:

> Indeed, this has been in the input-method design from the start.
> I'd be interested to know why.  Handa?

As far as I remember, the relevant code was written by RMS,
and I'm sorry but I don't remember what I discussed with RMS
at that time.

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

---
Kenichi Handa
handa <at> gnu.org

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