Re: global-set-key [? \ M-ö]

[Stefan Monnier]

> The unibyte binding is only _one_ of the methods suggested by the
> manual.  IIRC, none of the methods mentioned there works universally,
> so having each one fail in some situation is something we should
> expect, and this deficiency in itself should not IMHO be the reason to
> delete this advice.  The fact is that it helped the OP in this case.

As I said somewhere else, the use of unibyte is generally a bug.
It might superficially fix things sometimes, but then it's because of a bug
somewhere else.  In the OP's case, I'm pretty sure the problem is that
Emacs does not properly set the keyboard coding-system.

I don't think the manual should encourage to use workarounds (e.g. set
the unibyte:t cookie in your .emacs) rather than real fixes (set the
keyboard coding system properly).


        Stefan