two different internal representations of the key

[Gour]

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

One of the emacs' selling point is ability to rebind the keyboard to suit the 
editor for non-us layout.

Based on the hints from #emacs users, I tried to bind C-š to C-a, i.e. added 
the following line to my ~/.emacs:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-š") 'move-beginning-of-line)

If I ask help on C-a, C-h k C-a says: It is bound to C-a, C-š, <home>.

However,  C-h k C-š says:  C-š is undefined.

By reporting the issue in #emacs, i got help from 'fledermaus' who told me the 
problem is:

"there are two differnet internal representations, and they are not being used 
consistently." 

Moreover he hinted me to report "(kbd "C-š") is generating one vector for the 
key, which shows 
up when getting the help from the function, but actually pressing the key in X 
generates a different 
vector."

We went further th proof the problem:

 M-: (kbd "š") RET evaluates to: [331937]

By modifying ' describe-key' source (credit to fledermaus) with adding the line

    (fset 'yank-menu (cons 'keymap yank-menu))))))  
+  (message "KEY: %S" key)
    (if (numberp untranslated)

and issuing:

M-x describe-key RET C-š RET

evaluates:  KEY: [67111225]

otoh, M-: (kbd "C-š") RET

gives:  [67440801]

which confirms the problem that "kbd is supposed to be the one thing that tells 
you the canonical internal 
representation of any symbolic key representation,  which is different to eg. 
describe-key C-š" and therefore wrong.

Please, if someone can take a look on this issue, it's one of big advantages of 
emacs over vim for non-US users!

Sincerely,
Gour


In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.12)
 of 2007-06-08 on ovide
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10400000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' 
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--mandir=/usr/man' 
'--without-sound' '-with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic 
-O2 -pipe''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  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
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: identity

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