# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 1176022772 0 # Node ID e764b3b9820df3ad27e1f2e30dbdc5fb63ce51ac # Parent dd81fcb0ef0694229360fbc927c00297a1c1743e Update information about non-support of Windows input methods. diff -r dd81fcb0ef06 -r e764b3b9820d etc/PROBLEMS --- a/etc/PROBLEMS Sun Apr 08 00:23:23 2007 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Sun Apr 08 08:59:32 2007 +0000 @@ -2113,16 +2113,22 @@ An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed. -Windows input methods are not recognized by Emacs. Some +Windows input methods are not recognized by Emacs. However, some of these input methods cause the keyboard to send characters encoded in the appropriate coding system (e.g., ISO 8859-1 for Latin-1 -characters, ISO 8859-8 for Hebrew characters, etc.). To make this -work, set the keyboard coding system to the appropriate value after -you activate the Windows input method. For example, if you activate -the Hebrew input method, type "C-x RET k iso-8859-8 RET". (Emacs -ought to recognize the Windows language-change event and set up the -appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do that -yet.) +characters, ISO 8859-8 for Hebrew characters, etc.). To make these +input methods work with Emacs, set the keyboard coding system to the +appropriate value after you activate the Windows input method. For +example, if you activate the Hebrew input method, type this: + + C-x RET k hebrew-iso-8bit RET + +(Emacs ought to recognize the Windows language-change event and set up +the appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do +that yet.) In addition, to use these Windows input methods, you +should set your "Language for non-Unicode programs" (on Windows XP, +this is on the Advanced tab of Regional Settings) to the language of +the input method. To bind keys that produce non-ASCII characters with modifiers, you must specify raw byte codes. For instance, if you want to bind