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keyboard layout handling incompatible with rest of the OS

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 43830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43830: keyboard layout handling incompatible with rest of the OS
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2020 09:48:56 +0200

> By the way, what I forgot to mention, is that Emacs input modes
> perform exactly like I want (i.e. bind to physical keys, so that C-.
> in Russian works as C-/ in English; also e.g. C-ч й is translated to
> C-x q, so even non-modified characters inside bindings work), but
> they have the advantage of knowing the layout, of course.

Could you please give an example how you bind such key sequences as
'C-.' and 'C-ч й' in Emacs input modes?  How they do translation
to physical keys without using xkb?

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