Re: Same non-ASCII characters not 'equal'

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to write a little vocab tester but I've stumbled upon some
> strange behaviour I can't figure out.
>
> For some reason the following code does not match strings containing
> special characters (i.e., non-ASCII characters input using an input
> method)?
>
>  (with-temp-buffer
>    (set-input-method 'turkish-postfix)
>    (let ((dict (list '("glass" "bardak") '("house" "ev") '("girl" "kız")
>                      '("child" "çocuk") '("little" "küçük") '("good" "iyi")
>                      '("bad" "fena") '("horse" "at") '("this" "bu")))
>        (input (read-from-minibuffer "? " nil nil nil nil nil t))
>        match)
>      (dolist (each dict (and match (message "Equal")))
>        (when (member input each) (setq match t)))))
>
> Take 'child' and 'çocuk' for instance.  Because the (turkish-postfix)
> input method is inherited in the minibuffer you have to type 
> 'c h i 2 l d' to enter 'child' and a match is found, but when you
> enter 'çocuk' by typing 'c , o c u k', no match is found.  Could this
> be a bug even?

It works for me.

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