Re: Problem with viper-replace-char and Swedish characters on w32

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Thanks, Stefan.  Is something like this what should be done then:

>    (let* ((ch (read-char "cs:")))
>      (insert (decode-coding-string (char-to-string ch)
>                                    (keyboard-coding-system))))

This also has its share of problems since keyboard-coding-system may be
multibyte, in which case you might need to read more than 1 char ;-)

  (insert (aref (read-key-sequence) 0))

is another approch which will correctly solve those problems, but will
suffer from yet others: typically after hitting things like C-c or C-x Emacs
will just sit still, waiting for more input before processing it.
You can get closer with

  (insert (let ((overriding-terminal-local-map (make-sparse-keymap)))
            (aref (read-key-sequence) 0)))

but C-x will still hang because of the C-x 8 prefix in key-translation-map,
and similarly for ESC because of the bindings in function-key-map.

I'm not really sure what should be the right answer... I'm not even sure
what should be the right behavior.


        Stefan