bug#3237: Bug report, going back to 22.1

bug#3237: Bug report, going back to 22.1

[A. Jan Kutylowski]

From:  <andrzejk@SV-STUD-0-93>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: keyboard
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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

+++
After Emacs 22.1 Emacs does not recognize a change in the keyboard
setup under Windows XP. I have been using Emacs since version 20.3 to
write in Polish after declaring the Polish language for the keyboard
and after declaring cp1250-dos for the kayboard (and appropriately for 
the buffer involved). Polish "letters" are
obtained using AltGr +key, or AltGr+Shift (right) +key. In particular, 
Emacs 22.3 has that bug, although retrospective testing showed that 22.1
reacts properly.

This is a considerable impediment. I am looking forward to your help
+++++

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
     `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
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In GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
  of 2008-09-06 on SOFT-MJASON
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'

Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: nil
   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
   value of $LC_TIME: nil
   value of $LANG: NOR
   locale-coding-system: cp1252
   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
   display-time-mode: t
   iswitchb-mode: t
   shell-dirtrack-mode: t
   show-paren-mode: t
   delete-selection-mode: t
   encoded-kbd-mode: t
   tooltip-mode: t
   tool-bar-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
   utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   column-number-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report>

Recent messages:
Loading iswitchb...done
Loading time...done
Loading advice...done
Loading bytecomp...done
Loading paren...done
Loading m:/PClib/Emacs22.3/site-lisp/header/header.el (source)...done
Loading desktop...done
No desktop file.
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Loading emacsbug...done

bug#3237: Bug report, going back to 22.1

[Jason Rumney]

A. Jan Kutylowski wrote:
> After Emacs 22.1 Emacs does not recognize a change in the keyboard
> setup under Windows XP. I have been using Emacs since version 20.3 to
> write in Polish after declaring the Polish language for the keyboard
> and after declaring cp1250-dos for the kayboard (and appropriately for 
> the buffer involved). Polish "letters" are
> obtained using AltGr +key, or AltGr+Shift (right) +key. In particular, 
> Emacs 22.3 has that bug, although retrospective testing showed that 22.1
> reacts properly.


Can you try the 23.0.94 pretest at 
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/

Some of low level input handling on Windows has changed since 22.3, so 
it is possible that your problem is already fixed.

bug#3237: Bug report, going back to 22.1

[Jason Rumney]

A. Jan Kutylowski wrote:

> ęĘ
> Üü
> óÓ
> ąĄ
> ąĄ
>    ALT-GR s malfunctions, cmall and capital letter
> łŁ
> öÖ
> äÄ
> żŻ
>  Ź AltGr x malfunctions, OK for capital letter
> ćĆ


Please explain what keys you press, what characters you expect to see, 
and what characters you do see.  I have tried setting my keyboard to 
Polish (214) and pressing the keys indicated in the keymap at
    http://ascii-table.com/img/keyboard-214.png
All of the keys that are present on my keyboard seem to work, but some 
of the characters you report above are missing from that keymap.
Windows has another Polish keymap, but I can't find any documentation of 
which keys I need to press to get non-ASCII characters.