Re: inputting characters by hexadigit

[Juri Linkov]

>>     ;; Assume character codes 0240 - 0377 stand for characters in some
>>     ;; single-byte character set, and convert them to Emacs
>>     ;; characters.
>>     (if (and enable-multibyte-characters
>>           (>= char ?\240)
>>           (<= char ?\377))
>>      (setq char (unibyte-char-to-multibyte char)))
>
>> I don't know if this code is still valid now?
>
> Indeed, it's not valid any more.
> It should probably try something like
>
>   (aref (decode-coding-string (unibyte-string char) locale-coding-system) 0)
>
> instead, tho I'd argue that we should drop this feature and insert the
> corresponding Unicode char instead (which would give the latin-1
> equivalent as well).

So is it ok to remove this code or it's better to comment it out?

BTW, there are also warnings in the same function (and few other
places):

    In quoted-insert:
    simple.el:685:22:Warning: `translation-table-for-input' is an obsolete
        variable (as of Emacs 23.1).

Could you tell what changes this requires?

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/