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Re: global-set-key [? \ M-ö]


From: Kai Großjohann
Subject: Re: global-set-key [? \ M-ö]
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 10:25:34 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> writes:

> Hmmm.... it seems that there's one case where a unibyte answer might
> make sense: the user wants to use latin-9 but also has some latin-1 files
> and doesn't want to suffer from the corner cases of encode-only
> unification, so he turns on decode-unification in his .emacs.  His keyboard
> coding system is set to latin-9, but unification translates most of those
> to latin-1 chars, so his .emacs should be read as latin-1 for most
> non-ASCII keybindings.  A unibyte cookie in the .emacs won't directly help,
> but if you additionally set the keyboard-coding-system to nil, it might
> end up working.

What happens if people use iso-2022-7bit as the encoding for the
.emacs file?  Then they can put latin-1 chars for the latin-1 cases
and latin-9 chars for the other cases.

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