Hello Eli, Thank you for your reply. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: "jasonal" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:43 PM Subject: Re: Problems on the input side under Win32 >> From: "jasonal" >> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:01:59 +0100 >> >> GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-01-01 on DTOP > > Thanks you for your report. > > In general, reports about Emacs 23 should go to emacs-devel@gnu.org or > to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org. Also, Emacs 23 is very early into its > development, so grave bugs should still be expected in that version. > I have tried GNU Emacs 22.0.92.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-01-01 on DTOP. There're some similar problems as well. >> 1. When I type Euro sign with german keyboard (press AltGr-E) >> under Win32, it is displayed as \200, which is #x80. The correct >> Euro sign should be U+20AC. > > What does Emacs say if you go to that \200 and press "C-u C-x ="? > (#x80 is the code of Euro in the Windows encoding.) > describe-char of that \200 (Emacs23) is: character: € (128, #o200, #x80) preferred charset: iso-8859-1 (Latin-1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1)) code point: 0x80 syntax: w which means: word category: l:Latin |:While filling, we can break a line at this character. buffer code: #xC2 #x80 file code: not encodable by coding system chinese-gbk-unix display: no font available In NTEmacs 22.0.92.1 when I press AltGr-E, it sais in minibuffer: \200 is undefined. >> 2. It doesn't work under win32 if I want to type C-@ with german >> keyboard (press Ctrl-AltGr-q) and other similar input related to >> a key combination of Ctrl-AltGr-. > > Try playing with the variable w32-recognize-altgr. > The variable w32-recognize-altgr is t. It behaves same in Emacs22. It's interesting, M-@ does work in Emacs. That is Alt-AltGr-q, or Left Alt - Right Alt - q. >> 3. When I type Umlauts (ü ö ä ß µ etc.) with german >> keyboard, they behave like a prefix command that is waiting for a >> following type. > > What keyboard do you use in Windows? what do you see in Control Panel > -> Regional and Language Options -> Languages -> Details? And what > version of Windows is that? > The keyboard is German (Germany) - German. And Windows XP SP2. I've tested in ntemacs 22. It is a little different. If I press ü, it also waits in minibuffer ü- . Then I press SPACE. It displays \221\374\240. C-u C-x = on it: character: ? (48672, #o137040, #xbe20) charset: chinese-gb2312 (GB2312 Chinese simplified: ISO-IR-58.) code point: #x7C #x20 syntax: w which means: word category: C:Chinese (Han) characters of 2-byte character sets c:Chinese |:While filling, we can break a line at this character. buffer code: #x91 #xFC #xA0 file code: #xEF #xBF #xBD (encoded by coding system mule-utf-8-dos) display: by this font (glyph code) -outline-Arial Unicode MS-normal-r-normal-normal-13-97-96-96-p-*-gb2312*-* (#x9F31) >> 4. If there are two continued characters which are both larger >> than 0x80 (ü ö ä ß µ etc.), they can't be displayed >> correctly under win32. > > Please describe the details: what is displayed in this case? Please find the screenshot in the attachment. The word is 'größer'. If the cursor is moved over the ö or ß, it can be displayed correctly. Otherwise, the two letters look like a strange chinese character. The third one is 'Mit freundlichen Grüßen', the ü and ß can't be displayed. This is same on both ntemacs23 and ntemacs22. But it can be displayed on Emacs under Linux.