Re: utf-8 input under X11

[Gerd Moellmann]

David Monniaux <David.Monniaux@ens.fr> writes:

> Le Vendredi 26 Octobre 2001 18:12, Gerd Moellmann a écrit :
> > > nil
> > That's certainly no good to decode UTF-8 :-).
> Documentation:
> Coding system to use with system messages.
> 
> It is totally nonintuitive that that variable, documented as this, 
> should have an influence on X11 decoding.

No disagreement here.

> > > When I start emacs with LC_ALL=fr_FR, locale-coding-system is
> > > iso-latin-1.
> > Hm.
> It's obviously set up automatically to be so in ISO-8859-1 locales! 
> Try launching emacs with LC_ALL=ru_RU.KOI8-R, you'll see it 
> automatically sets locale-coding-system to cyrillic-koi8.
> 
> Note also that you don't need set-keyboard-coding-system to decode 
> iso-latin-1 or cyrillic-koi8. It's just done automatically by Emacs.
> 
> > That needs a MULE guru, I guess.  Kenichi, could you please take
> > over from here?
> 
> I don't think it's a MULE issue, really, but rather a weirdness in 
> the routines decoding X11 keyboard input. To me, that's how the thing 
> works:

The decoding/encoding is a signficant part of MULE, you know.