Re: coding system

[Olive <olive.lin@versateladsl.be>]

Joe Corneli wrote:
>    rebind the é key the command which works is
> 
>    (global-set-key [2281] 'foo)
> 
>    the command
> 
>    (global-set-key "é" 'foo)
> 
>    does not work.
> 
> 
> Since you have a working command, I guess this question is partly out
> of curiousity... so I don't feel bad about suggesting something that
> I'm not sure will help, but - out of curiousity, what does
> 
>  (kbd "?")
> 
> return?  
> 
> BTW, here, in a buffer with coding system described by
> (describe-current-coding-system) to be
> 
> Coding system for saving this buffer:
>   Not set locally, use the default.
> Default coding system (for new files):
>   nil
> Coding system for keyboard input:
>   nil
> Coding system for terminal output:
>   nil
> Defaults for subprocess I/O:
>   decoding: - -- undecided
> 
>   encoding: 1 -- iso-latin-1 (alias: iso-8859-1 latin-1)
> 
> a *local* binding to "?" works fine.
> 
> 

(kbd "?") return "?". All works as expected since "?" is an ASCII 
character. The reason to my question is that I want to understand emacs 
and the coding systems (so yes it is of curiousity). What confused me is 
that all seems to set to Latin-1 and nevertheless é is 2281, which I do 
not know were it come from.

Olive