From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Olive Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: coding system Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:32:46 +0100 Organization: X-Privat NNTP Server - http://www.x-privat.org Message-ID: <42402c0f_5@x-privat.org> References: <4240134e$1_3@x-privat.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111502028 17486 80.91.229.2 (22 Mar 2005 14:33:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:33:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 22 15:33:48 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDkQt-0004NW-Oh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:32:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDkiD-0006x4-0e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:50:29 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040618 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: $$5ionjeimjc7n8.x-privat.org Original-Lines: 49 X-Authenticated-User: $$s059zlu66nq1tvzvcvj6lkm_d Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@x-privat.org Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!x-privat.org!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129542 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25092 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25092 Joe Corneli wrote: > rebind the =E9 key the command which works is >=20 > (global-set-key [2281] 'foo) >=20 > the command >=20 > (global-set-key "=E9" 'foo) >=20 > does not work. >=20 >=20 > 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 >=20 > (kbd "?") >=20 > return? =20 >=20 > BTW, here, in a buffer with coding system described by > (describe-current-coding-system) to be >=20 > 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 >=20 > encoding: 1 -- iso-latin-1 (alias: iso-8859-1 latin-1) >=20 > a *local* binding to "?" works fine. >=20 >=20 (kbd "?") return "?". All works as expected since "?" is an ASCII=20 character. The reason to my question is that I want to understand emacs=20 and the coding systems (so yes it is of curiousity). What confused me is = that all seems to set to Latin-1 and nevertheless =E9 is 2281, which I do= =20 not know were it come from. Olive