changeset 46236:b3a9c5fdc73a

keyboard-coding-system is initialized from the locale.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Sun, 07 Jul 2002 23:24:49 +0000
parents 3fade010f334
children 46b0c6f318b5
files man/mule.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/man/mule.texi	Sun Jul 07 23:23:15 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/mule.texi	Sun Jul 07 23:24:49 2002 +0000
@@ -992,7 +992,19 @@
 send non-ASCII graphic characters---for example, some terminals designed
 for ISO Latin-1 or subsets of it.
 
-  By default, keyboard input is not translated at all.
+  By default, keyboard input is translated based on your system locale
+setting.  If your terminal does not really support the encoding
+implied by your locale (for example, if you find it inserts a
+non-ASCII character if you type @kbd{M-i}), you will need to set
+@code{keyboard-coding-system} to @code{nil} to turn off encoding.
+You can do this by putting
+
+@lisp
+(set-keyboard-coding-system nil)
+@end lisp
+
+@noindent
+in your @file{~/.emacs} file.
 
   There is a similarity between using a coding system translation for
 keyboard input, and using an input method: both define sequences of