Philipp Stephani
schrieb am Mo., 25. Dez. 2017 um
21:13 Uhr:
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> Eli Zaretskii schrieb am So., 24. Dez. 2017 um 20:35 Uhr:
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>> > Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 19:28:07 +0000
>> > From: Alan Third
>> > Cc: 29837@debbugs.gnu.org
>> >
>> > If I try to select utf-16 I get this
>> >
>> > set-keyboard-coding-system: Unsuitable coding system for keyboard:
>> utf-16
>> >
>> > and I used tab completion to find which other coding systems were
>> > available but all the ones beginning utf-16 that I tried return the
>> > same message.
>>
>> Oh, I now recollect that Handa-san said at some point that keyboard
>> input doesn't support UTF-16...
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>> How do other macOS programs read UTF-16 keyboard input? Maybe you
>> could use the same way to read the sequences, and then decode them
>> internally as UTF-16 using coding.c facilities, and feed them into the
>> Emacs event queue? Just a thought.
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> IIUC Emacs receives the input as a single UTF-16 string (in insertText) ...
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On a somewhat related note, insertText: is itself deprecated and should be
replaced with insertText:replacementRange:.