Re: coding system

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 22.03.2005 um 13:47 schrieb Olive:

> I am confused about emacs and coding system. If I evaluate the 
> following function
>
> (read-event "Press a key: ")
>
> and press the é key (e acute); I see 2281 in the echo aera. If I want 
> to rebind the é key the command which works is
>
> (global-set-key [2281] 'foo)
>
> the command
>
> (global-set-key "é" 'foo)
>
> does not work.

Can it be that you too are confused about the difference of an event 
and a character representation? I think your keyboard does not deliver 
glyphs or characters, it's just an event that has to be transformed 
into some other property. So your both global-set-key's are distinct.

If you want to know a character's representation, position the cursor 
on it and type C-u C-x =.

For me (kbd "é") is 2281 ...

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Greetings

  Pete

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