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25.3; C-M-e inserts euro character

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Message #41 received at 30043 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn <at> posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 30043 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30043: 25.3; C-M-e inserts euro character
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:59:26 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn <at> posteo.net>
>> Cc: 30043 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:22:39 +0100
>> 
>> > I don't think this is a problem, I think this is how your keyboard is
>> > supposed to work.  But since you don't like it, I mentioned the
>> > variable which can be used to get back the old Emacs 24 behavior, if
>> > that's what you want.
>> 
>> Yes, I do prefer to be able to call end-of-defun by a familiar
>> key-binding. If I test this on some other stations with other keyboards
>> with the same result, will that yield the same recommendation with
>> setting the fall-back variable?
>
> You should definitely try that variable if you see a similar issue,
> especially if the behavior changed since Emacs 24.

I checked this on two other stations (with other keyboards) and the
same thing happened, C-M-e inserts a euro character using emacs 25+.
Setting w32-use-fallback-wm-chars-method to t removes the problem also
on those stations.

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