bug#10299: Emacs doesn't handle Unicode characters in keyboard layout on MS Windows

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:31:55 +0100
>> From: Joakim Hårsman <joakim.harsman@gmail.com>

>> So if I press something which gives U+2218 RING OPERATOR, I get a
>> WM_CHAR event with a wParam of 2228248 or 0x220018.
>
> ??? UTF-16 encodes the characters in the BMP as themselves, i.e. a
> single 16-bit value that is numerically identical to the codepoint.
> That is, you should have gotten 0x2218.  What am I missing?

It looks like there is an endianness mismatch somewhere.