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

[David Reitter]

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'.

The character descriptions are as follows:


Euro sign:
  character: € (342604, #o1235114, #x53a4c, U+20AC)
    charset: mule-unicode-0100-24ff
             (Unicode characters of the range U+0100..U+24FF.)
code point: #x74 #x4C
     syntax: w  which means: word
buffer code: #x9C #xF4 #xF4 #xCC
  file code: not encodable by coding system nil


Pound sign:
  character: £ (2211, #o4243, #x8a3, U+00A3)
    charset: latin-iso8859-1
	     (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1): ISO- 
IR-100.)
code point: #x23
     syntax: w  which means: word
   category: l:Latin
buffer code: #x81 #xA3
  file code: not encodable by coding system nil