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[PATCH] Ignore modifiers when processing WM_IME_CHAR messages

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: tsuucat <tsuucat <at> icloud.com>
Cc: 44641 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44641: [PATCH] Ignore modifiers when processing WM_IME_CHAR messages
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 19:24:48 +0200

> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 01:58:34 +0900
> From: tsuucat via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Current Emacs for Windows recognizes modifier keys even when inputting
> with IME. Some IMEs use modifier keys to input characters, so this
> causes inconvenient for such IME users.

You say "some IMEs", so I wonder whether ignoring modifier keys for
WM_IME_CHAR is always the right thing.  Do you know for sure? is that
documented somewhere?  (I'm not an expert on MS-Windows IMEs.)

Thanks.

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