Re: utf-8 input under X11

[Gerd Moellmann]

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

> Le Vendredi 26 Octobre 2001 17:25, Gerd Moellmann a écrit :
> > Then we're indeed on the right track, but I guess I'll need Kenichi
> > for debugging decode_coding.  Could you please print the value
> > of locale-coding-system?
> 
> nil

That's certainly no good to decode UTF-8 :-).

> When I start emacs with LC_ALL=fr_FR, locale-coding-system is 
> iso-latin-1.

Hm.

> I now did experiments setting locale-coding-system to 'utf-8. The 
> results are pretty much interesting. I don't have to
> (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
> - <Multi_key o e> gives oe ligature (correct)
> - <Multi_key O E> gives oe ligature (correct)
> - <Multi_key E => gives the Euro sign (correct)
> - AltGr-E abandons instead of giving the Euro sign
> - the Russian characters give garbage

That needs a MULE guru, I guess.  Kenichi, could you please take over
from here?