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

[David Reitter]

On 6 May 2007, at 15:18, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Depends.  First and foremost it depends on what are "€" and "£",  
> since there
> are many different such values, all displayed identically.  Check the
> multibyteness of those strings, as well as the result of string-to- 
> char:
>
>    (let ((str "€"))
>      (list (multibyte-string-p str) (string-to-char str) (key- 
> binding str)))

(t 342604 self-insert-command)

>    (let ((str "£"))
>      (list (multibyte-string-p str) (string-to-char str) (key- 
> binding str)))

(t 2211 nil)

Interestingly:

(key-binding [2211] t)  -> self-insert-command
(key-binding [342604] t)  -> self-insert-command
or generically: (key-binding (vector (string-to-char "£")) t)  ->  
self-insert-command
(key-binding "£" t)  -> nil

So, it seems to be a problem with the string specification of the key.

Richard Stallman wrote:

> I guess this means there is some other map involved, which key-binding
> does not check for.  Maybe key-translation-map?  Maybe a binding for a
> generic character?

Neither key is defined in `key-translation-map', and I don't know how  
what defines a "generic character".