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 21:11:49 +0900

In article <jwvwqdqzdeh.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> > 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,

Yes, I agree.

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Kenichi Handa
handa <at> gnu.org

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