Re: Euro sign bound, Pound sign not bound. (Bug?)

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 07:57:59 +0100
> 
> On 4 May 2007, at 22:17, Richard Stallman wrote:
> 
> >     The following strikes me as strange:
> >
> >     (key-binding "=80") ;; (Euro character) returns 'self-insert- 
> > command, =
> >     but
> >     (key-binding "=A3") ;; (Pound character) returns nil
> >
> >     Is this a bug?
> >
> > Maybe.  Can you type these two characters on your keyboard?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > If so, what happens?  Do they insert themselves?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> C-h k tells me, for both of them, that they are bound to `self-insert- 
> command'.

Yes, but what gets inserted is not A3 hex.  Observe:

> Pound sign:
>    character: £ (2211, #o4243, #x8a3, U+00A3)
> [...]
> buffer code: #x81 #xA3

So as you see, that character is 8A3 hex, not A3 hex.  The latter is
its Latin-1 encoding, but inside Emacs it is known under a different
code.