From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Axel Svensson <mail@axelsvensson.com>
Cc: 37530@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37530: 26.1; Tack characters translated incorrectly
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 08:26:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zhiqjom4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ40yayVXzDjgptThaVZNijFOxK_h8f_QvL6E0JGJzZRq_HuRA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Axel Svensson on Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:31:34 +0200)
> From: Axel Svensson <mail@axelsvensson.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:31:34 +0200
>
> Press C-h l to run view-lossage.
> The last lines display the erroneous characters that were inserted,
> rather than the expected characters.
> ⊣ [self-insert-command]
> ⊢ [self-insert-command]
> ⊥ [self-insert-command]
> ⊤ [self-insert-command]
> C-h l [view-lossage]
>
> In order to confirm that the behavior I have stated as expected is the
> correct one, look to the XKB keysym definitions:
> > #define XKB_KEY_downtack 0x0bc2 /* U+22A4 DOWN TACK */
> > #define XKB_KEY_uptack 0x0bce /* U+22A5 UP TACK */
> > #define XKB_KEY_lefttack 0x0bdc /* U+22A3 LEFT TACK */
> > #define XKB_KEY_righttack 0x0bfc /* U+22A2 RIGHT TACK */
> These can be found at:
> https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/blob/master/xkbcommon/xkbcommon-keysyms.h
>
> It is understandable that bugs like these can go unnoticed seeing that
> these characters probably aren't part of any widely used keyboard
> layout. If this bug can be confirmed, and depending on what caused it,
> it might be beneficial to add the complete mapping from X11 keysyms to
> Unicode codepoints as automated tests. I'm willing to provide this
> mapping, including source references.
Isn't the output of "C-h l" evidence that Emacs actually received the
codepoints it displayed? IOW, how do we know this is a problem in
Emacs and not in the keyboard configuration and/or driver software?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-27 5:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-26 21:31 bug#37530: 26.1; Tack characters translated incorrectly Axel Svensson
2019-09-27 5:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-09-27 10:37 ` Axel Svensson
2019-09-27 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:17 ` Axel Svensson
2019-09-27 13:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-27 13:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-27 13:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-27 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 14:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-27 14:18 ` Axel Svensson
2019-09-27 14:10 ` Axel Svensson
2019-09-27 14:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-27 14:57 ` Axel Svensson
2019-09-27 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 14:48 ` Axel Svensson
2019-09-27 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 17:19 ` Axel Svensson
2019-09-27 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 20:05 ` Axel Svensson
2019-09-28 6:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 13:44 ` Axel Svensson
2019-09-28 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 14:30 ` Axel Svensson
2019-09-28 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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