bug#1731: 23.0.60; Mac OS X problems with non-ASCII keys

[Alex Schröder]

Indeed, investigating my .emacs I find that the culprit is a setting
that used to be necessary in the past:

;; set-keyboard-coding-system 'mac-roman);; no longer necessary in Emacs 23

Excellent.

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 3:50 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> My Mac has a Swiss German keyboard. The keys producing ASCII
>> characters all work. Therefore the layout is correct. But the
>> non-ASCII are wrong: Characters like çäöüàéè result in bogus stuff
>> such as Á‰ˆ¸‡ÈË.
>
>> When I use C-h k ä I get the following message:
>
>> ‰ (translated from ä) is undefined
>
>> So Emacs does at some point in time recognize the ä.
>
> Maybe keyboard-coding-system is being naughty?
>
>
>        Stefan
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