Re: Problem with viper-replace-char and Swedish characters on w32

[Lennart Borgman]

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> This is for Emacs on w32. There is a problem in viper when replacing a 
> character (using the "r" command - `viper-repace-char') with a Swedish 
> character. (For example ö which is an o with two dots above.)
>
> I am using Swedish keyboard layout. Under w2k this is set in Control 
> Panel - Regional Settings - Input Locales - Keyboard Layout. I have 
> tested two different locales, which gives different results below. The 
> locales are found under ... - Regional Settings - General - Your Locale.
>
> ...
Since no one has answered I will try to restate the question in a more 
general and simple manner: The user is prompted for a single character 
and this character should then be inserted in the buffer. The question 
is how this should be done. The current code in viper does AFAICS 
something similar to

   (insert (read-char "char: "))

This gives incorrect display of character if it is a Swedish character 
(like o with two dots above) under the conditions I explained before 
(Swedish keyboard, Local English). The code below gives the desired result:

   (let ((last-command-char (read-char "c:"))) (self-insert-command 1))


Is this the correct way to do it?