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UTF-16 char display problems and the macOS "character palette"

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From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 29837 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29837: UTF-16 char display problems and the macOS "character palette"
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 19:28:07 +0000

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 08:57:04PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 18:23:21 +0000
> > From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
> > Cc: 29837 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > 
> > > You need to tell Emacs that keyboard input is in UTF-16.  Did you try
> > > "C-x RET k"?
> > 
> > I have now but I can’t find a utf-16 option that is ‘suitable’ for
> > keyboard input.
> 
> What do you mean by "option" and by "suitable"?

If I try to select utf-16 I get this

    set-keyboard-coding-system: Unsuitable coding system for keyboard: utf-16

and I used tab completion to find which other coding systems were
available but all the ones beginning utf-16 that I tried return the
same message.
-- 
Alan Third

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