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From: ludo@chbouib.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>,
	ludovic.courtes@laas.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
	435452@bugs.debian.org, svenjoac@gmx.de
Subject: Re: Bug#435452: emacs22: `set-keyboard-coding-system'	fails in non-X11 mode]
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:09:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hcmeu26h.fsf@chbouib.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwsvblqoh.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri\, 31 Aug 2007 10\:36\:16 -0400")

Hi,

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

>> Typing M-x yields the `ø' ("o slash") character instead of running
>> `execute-extended-command'.
>
> This is because your terminal sends the exact same byte sequence (in this
> case it's actually a single byte) when you type M-x as when you type ø, so
> Emacs has no way to distinguish the two: it chooses to interpret the byte as
> ø here (which messes up the M-x case) and you could tell it to interpret it
> as M-x (which would mess up the ø case).

I see, thanks for the clarification!

> Indeed, that's the right solution because it tells your Terminal to use
> different byte-sequences for the two different cases.

Understood.

Thanks,
Ludovic.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-01 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <87y7fvbp6r.fsf_-_@gmx.de>
2007-08-29 20:05     ` Bug#435452: emacs22: `set-keyboard-coding-system' fails in non-X11 mode] ludo, Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s
2007-08-30  1:08       ` Kenichi Handa
2007-08-30 20:55         ` ludo, Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s
2007-08-31 14:36           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-01 10:09             ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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