From owner-ntemacs-users@june Tue Sep 24 22:39:37 1996 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Tue" "24" "September" "1996" "22:04:49" "-0700" "George V. Reilly" "georger@microcrafts.com" nil "13" "Dead-key handling broken in console-mode Emacs in NT 4.0" "^From:" nil nil "9" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from joker.cs.washington.edu (joker.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.42]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.5/7.2ju) with SMTP id WAA20728 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:39:37 -0700 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by joker.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id WAA18448 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:39:35 -0700 Received: from redmond.xxmicrocrafts.com (redmond.microcrafts.com [206.125.91.23]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.5/7.2ju) with SMTP id WAA19302; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:08:30 -0700 Received: by redmond.xxmicrocrafts.com with Microsoft Exchange (IMC 4.0.837.3) id <01BBAA64.68C086C0@redmond.xxmicrocrafts.com>; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:04:51 -0700 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.837.3 Encoding: 13 TEXT From: "George V. Reilly" To: "'Andrew Innes'" , "'Geoff Voelker'" Cc: "'ntemacs-users'" Subject: Dead-key handling broken in console-mode Emacs in NT 4.0 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:04:49 -0700 Set the keyboard to, say, Portuguese. Run the console-mode version of Emacs, "emacs -nw". Type any dead key, such as acute (it's the `]' key on US keyboards). Boom, it dies in a call to ToAscii. After some experimentation, I believe that this is a bug in NT 4.0. This worked in NT 3.51. The GUI version of Emacs continues to work fine with dead keys. I'm running NT Server 4.0, build 1381. -- /George V. Reilly MicroCrafts, Inc., 17371 NE 67th Ct #205, Redmond, WA 98052, USA. Tel: +1 206/250-0014 Fax: 206/250-0100 Web: www.microcrafts.com Vim 4 (vi clone) for NT & Windows 95: http://www.halcyon.com/gvr/ pgp fingerprint: e2 b4 83 64 11 52 21 ea bf d8 51 c2 11 00 78 fc