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

[Jason Rumney]

Drew Adams wrote:
> So what? Binding thousands of characters is something computers are good at.
>   

Binding thousands of characters is a waste of memory and time.

> Or are you saying that that would affect performance in an unacceptable way?
>
> If so, what's special about `self-insert-command' - why not bind them all to
> a different command, `foobar', which does what is needed

Because self-insert-command does what is needed! Why should we introduce 
a new binding to do the same thing so that you can remain blissfully 
ignorant of the purpose of generic characters?

>     What problems? These are not real keys, why would someone try to use
>     them with read-kbd-macro?
>
> What indicates that they are not "real keys"? You have to parse the
> `single-key-description' and match against "Character set " to determine
> that. Or you have to test the type of the event/key. Or some such.
>   

You won't get an event/key to test the type of, because they are not 
real keys. There is no way to generate that events that match generic 
characters.