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

[Lennart Borgman]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 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))
> >     
>
> This will not obey keyboard-coding-system but
> nonascii-translation-table instead.  So it will work OK sometimes, but is
> not what you want.  But note that this is also what quoted-insert uses, so
> it's no worse than the normal C-q.
>
>
>         Stefan
>   
Thanks, Stefan. Is something like this what should be done then:

   (let* ((ch (read-char "cs:")))
     (insert (decode-coding-string (char-to-string ch)
                                   (keyboard-coding-system))))

--lennart