Re: Rebinding international characters

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>  I'm now working on changing encoded-kdb.el to setup key-translation-map (I
>>  think it is more suitable than function-key-map).

> I'd tend to agree that key-translation-map is more suitable, although using
> function-key-map would have the advantage that people's old bindings like
> (global-set-key [241] 'foobar) would still work.

> OTOH such bindings are fundamentally wrong IMNSHO (although it's the "only"
> thing that works in older Emacsen).

On X window, (global-set-key [241] 'foobar) won't work
anymore because one can't type ?\241 directly.  When one
types a key that generates ?\241, X maps it to some keysym,
and Emacs maps it to a multibyte character by
x-keysym-table.


By the way, I'm puzzled with the handling of
key-translation-map.

(define-key key-translation-map "\e$B" [?a])

With above, I think key sequence ESC $ B should be mapped to
?a and thus inserts ?a.  But, when I type ESC $, ispell-word
is invoked.

(lookup-key key-translation-map "\e$B") returns [97].

(define-key key-translation-map "\C-x$B" [?a])
also doesn't work, but
(define-key key-translation-map "\C-x9B" [?a])
works.

Do I misunderstand key-translation-map?

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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