bug#17412: 24.3; Unicode key events broken, not usable in input method

[K. Handa]

In article <jwviopiki5k.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier 
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > Digging around in keyboard.c, I found that read_char() only passes
> > events with keycode < 256 (line 3050ff) to input-method-function:

> Indeed, this has been in the input-method design from the start.
> I'd be interested to know why.  Handa?

As far as I remember, the relevant code was written by RMS,
and I'm sorry but I don't remember what I discussed with RMS
at that time.

Perhaps we had expected that a user typed C as a character
if C >= 256, not as a key to input another character.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@gnu.org