From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10299: Emacs doesn't handle Unicode characters in keyboard layout on MS Windows Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:08:30 +0100 Message-ID: References: <8739clgapc.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323961788 11123 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2011 15:09:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:09:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Joakim =?UTF-8?Q?H=C3=A5rsman?= , 10299@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 15 16:09:44 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RbCwJ-0005hm-2c for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:09:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35869 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RbCwI-0003j5-7a for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:09:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35393) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RbCw9-0003hO-ON for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:09:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RbCw8-0001hQ-4X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:09:33 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:39067) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RbCw8-0001hL-0p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:09:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RbCxZ-0002sQ-Mm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:11:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lennart Borgman Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:11:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10299 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10299-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10299.132396182411015 (code B ref 10299); Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:11:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10299) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Dec 2011 15:10:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RbCwx-0002rc-G4 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:10:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f44.google.com ([209.85.215.44]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RbCww-0002rV-1a for 10299@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:10:22 -0500 Original-Received: by laah2 with SMTP id h2so959365laa.3 for <10299@debbugs.gnu.org>; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:08:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YLaKhZ1ziYx6lK79iipi1+YHrmrQqw/DECbkSaZNGm4=; b=hCoIH0yMVK9UKutYE1FljCopHs4X6jbxDx6WMueFO/d1T2rsAO0+EeeW+QjKKEg2sE 0Z+07FjRBJSwMz2NtwJhldtrm0LFFll9rMn/K1i26R6zCatvZ7+WHRZ7fik2l+oOGHmj Vtwr/NF6971RqxU7Le7Al4crBCt+dqz5C/mo4= Original-Received: by 10.152.103.71 with SMTP id fu7mr3312881lab.31.1323961731123; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:08:51 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.152.27.104 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:08:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8739clgapc.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:11:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:54990 Archived-At: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 15:40, Jason Rumney wrote: > > It tries to use Unicode if the Windows input method is sending it. =C2=A0= The > problem here is that there is no standard for Windows input methods, so > even the ones built into Windows act differently for different languages > and for the same language across different versions of Windows. > > Some input methods will send WM_UNICHAR messages with the Unicode > character, which can be intercepted before they are turned into question > marks by Windows. These will just work with Emacs. > > Others will send character codes corresponding to the codepoints in the > default Windows codepage for that language (regardless of your system > codepage). These can be handled by changing keyboard-coding-system > within Emacs. > > Others will not send anything useful unless your system codepage is set > appropriately for the language being input. > > It sounds like this one may be in the third category. Since Windows can handle this there must be a way to do it. But maybe there are no docs from MS that explains how?