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

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Message #29 received at 17412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: handa <at> gnu.org (K. Handa)
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: 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

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