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Re: Bug#435452: emacs22: `set-keyboard-coding-system' fails in non-X11 m


From: Sven Joachim
Subject: Re: Bug#435452: emacs22: `set-keyboard-coding-system' fails in non-X11 mode]
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:26:36 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Hello Ludovic,

I received an answer from Emacs developer Kenichi Handa (quoted
below).  He says that it should not be necessary to invoke
`set-keyboard-coding-system'.


Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Would you please DTRT and ack?
>
> Ok.
>
>> ------- Start of forwarded message -------
>> To: address@hidden
>> From: Sven Joachim <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:32:22 +0200
>> Subject: [Ludovic Courtes] Bug#435452: emacs22: `set-keyboard-coding-system'
>>      fails in non-X11 mode
>
>> I received this via the Debian Bug Tracking System.  Handa-san, can
>> you comment on it?
>
> [...]
>> Invoking `set-keyboard-coding-system' in an "emacs -nw" session fails.
>> For instance, asking it `no-conversion' (which is needed so that dead
>> keys work as expected) fails:
>
>>   Unsupported coding system in Encoded-kbd mode: no-conversion
>
> I don't understand why you have to set
> keyboard-coding-system to no-conversion for dead keys.  Dead
> keys must be handled by terminal, and Emacs just receives
> the resulting character (encoded in your locale) from the
> terminal.  So, setting keyboard-coding-system to what is
> appropriate for your locale should work well, and that
> should be done automatically.
>
>> Other choices fail similarly.
>
> What other choices were tried?  utf-8, latin-X should all
> work.  What is your locale?
>
> ---
> Kenichi Handa
> address@hidden




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