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keyboard-coding-system
author Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
date Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:13:16 +0000
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841 Emacs can deduce the proper coding system from your terminal type or 841 Emacs can deduce the proper coding system from your terminal type or
842 your locale specification (@pxref{Language Environments}). 842 your locale specification (@pxref{Language Environments}).
843 843
844 @kindex C-x RET k 844 @kindex C-x RET k
845 @findex set-keyboard-coding-system 845 @findex set-keyboard-coding-system
846 @vindex keyboard-coding-system
846 The command @kbd{C-x @key{RET} k} (@code{set-keyboard-coding-system}) 847 The command @kbd{C-x @key{RET} k} (@code{set-keyboard-coding-system})
848 or the Custom option @code{keyboard-coding-system}
847 specifies the coding system for keyboard input. Character-code 849 specifies the coding system for keyboard input. Character-code
848 translation of keyboard input is useful for terminals with keys that 850 translation of keyboard input is useful for terminals with keys that
849 send non-ASCII graphic characters---for example, some terminals designed 851 send non-ASCII graphic characters---for example, some terminals designed
850 for ISO Latin-1 or subsets of it. 852 for ISO Latin-1 or subsets of it.
851 853
1158 characters: 1160 characters:
1159 1161
1160 @itemize @bullet 1162 @itemize @bullet
1161 @cindex 8-bit input 1163 @cindex 8-bit input
1162 @item 1164 @item
1165 @findex set-keyboard-coding-system
1166 @vindex keyboard-coding-system
1163 If your keyboard can generate character codes 128 and up, representing 1167 If your keyboard can generate character codes 128 and up, representing
1164 non-ASCII characters, you can execute the following expression to enable 1168 non-ASCII characters, use the command @code{M-x
1165 Emacs to understand them: 1169 set-keyboard-coding-system} or the Custom option
1166 1170 @code{keyboard-coding-system} to specify this in the same way as for
1167 @example 1171 multibyte usage (@pxref{Specify Coding}).
1168 (set-input-mode (car (current-input-mode))
1169 (nth 1 (current-input-mode))
1170 0)
1171 @end example
1172 1172
1173 It is not necessary to do this under a window system which can 1173 It is not necessary to do this under a window system which can
1174 distinguish 8-bit characters and Meta keys. If you do this on a normal 1174 distinguish 8-bit characters and Meta keys. If you do this on a normal
1175 terminal, you will probably need to use @kbd{ESC} to type Meta 1175 terminal, you will probably need to use @kbd{ESC} to type Meta
1176 characters.@footnote{In some cases, such as the Linux console and 1176 characters.@footnote{In some cases, such as the Linux console and