Re: kbd vs read-key-sequence

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > There's no indication that doing it right (i.e. doing the coding-system
> > decoding somewhere in the w32 code which turns w32 events into elisp events)
> > is difficult.  AFAICT nobody has really tried to do it.
> >   

> Anything to do with coding-systems in C code is difficult. Especially 
> when almost every encoding on Windows involves autoloaded CCL based 
> coding-systems.

We don't have to use the mechanism of "decode-coding".
Windows code is already using MultiByteToWideChar() which
seems to convert codepage codes to Unicode character, right?
Then, can't we use it to get a Unicode character code from
keyevent(s) and do something like this?

        MultiByteToWideChar (codepage, 0, inbuf, inlen, outbuf, outlen)
        lisp_char = call2 (intern ("decode-char"), intern ("ucs"),
                            make_number (outbuf[0]));

And, in emacs-unicode-2, you don't have to call "decode-char".

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Kenichi Handa
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