UTF-8 Input

[Nikolaus Rath]

Hello!

In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2001-12-06 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  i386-debian-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr 
--sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib 
--infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes 
--with-x-toolkit=athena --without-gif'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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

If i start GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d
scroll bars) of 2001-12-06 on raven, modified by Debian under XFree
4.1.0.1 with an UTF-8 locale, the keyboard input is interpreted in the
wrong way. Instead of the correct Unicode character i become the two
or three latin1 characters of the bytes that utf-8 uses to encode the
unicode character.

This looks like this: ä,ö,ü if i type ä,ö,ü (the german Umlaute).

I tried to use (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8), but in this case
the X11 compose function doesn't work and the uppercase characters
can't be typed in. Typing Ä results in:

encoded-kbd-self-insert-ccl: Invalid character: 05000, 2560, 0xa00

Recent input:
<right> <right> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<up> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> C-x b * m e 
<tab> <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> C-g 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <prior> <prior> Ã Character set RHP of 
Latin-4 (ISO 8859-4): ISO-IR-110 <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
Loading newcomment...done
Auto-saving...done
nil
Mark set [4 times]
nil
encoded-kbd-self-insert-ccl: Invalid character: 05000, 2560, 0xa00
mouse-minibuffer-check: Minibuffer window is not active [2 times]
encoded-kbd-self-insert-ccl: Invalid character: 05000, 2560, 0xa00
Loading emacsbug...done
Quit
encoded-kbd-self-insert-ccl: Invalid character: 05000, 2560, 0xa00


   --Nikolaus