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Re: Bug#435452: emacs22: `set-keyboard-coding-system' fails in non-X11 m


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Bug#435452: emacs22: `set-keyboard-coding-system' fails in non-X11 mode]
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:09:58 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

Hi,

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> 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.




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