quail+german keyboard->errors

[Karsten Tinnefeld]

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In GNU Emacs 20.7.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of Tue Jun 20 2000 on raven
configured using `configure  i386-debian-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr 
--sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib 
--infodir=/usr/share/info --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=yes'

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I have been trying to get quail.el to work with my German keyboard. I
wrote this piece of code and put it in my ~/.emacs.el :

(require 'quail)
(add-to-list
 'quail-keyboard-layout-alist
 '("pc-german" . "\
                              \
\136\260\ 1!2\"3\247\ 4$5%6&7/8(9)0=\337?'`    \
qQwWeErRtTzZuUiIoOpP\374\334+*      \
aAsSdDfFgGhHjJkKlL\366\326\344\304#'    \
<>yYxXcCvVbBnNmM,;.:-_          \
                            "))
(quail-set-keyboard-layout "pc-german")

This seems do suffer from several problems: Keys to the left of the
"1" and the "z" key (y on a German keyboard) seem to confuse quail
when not set to " ".  Keys with codevalues >128 are seemingly mapped
to something weird and produce very absurd keys.

When asking for help about the current keyboard layout after e.g. a
C-x RET l Cyrillic-ISO RET with C-h I, I obtain the
error 'Args out of range: "<start of my string>", 178'.

Now, the quail help buffer has some spectacular mismappings (which I
would like to paste hear, but set-buffer-file-coding-system on this
buffer does not work :( )

Now I do not know any further. Are these bugs or did I do sth. wrong?

Karsten Tinnefeld                                                           

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Karsten Tinnefeld                       tinnefeld@ls2.cs.uni-dortmund.de
Fachbereich Informatik, Lehrstuhl 2                   T +49 231 755-4737
Universität Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Deutschland   F +49 231 755-2047