Re: single-key-description no good for Japanese and Chinese chars

[Jason Rumney]

Drew Adams wrote:

> My question is this: Why do these keys have as their binding
> `self-insert-command'?

Because that is the binding for all characters of that group.

> I hear
> you saying that they are not valid keys, and you can't use them with
> `self-insert-command', and you can't use them (their descriptions) with
> `read-kbd-macro' - so why bind them to `self-insert-command'?
>   

Because doing so binds every character within that character group to 
self-insert-command without having to bind several thousand characters 
individually.

> and no one would have the problems of using keys with `self-insert-command' and 
> their descriptions with
> `read-kbd-macro'
What problems? These are not real keys, why would someone try to use 
them with read-kbd-macro?