Suggested enhancement for entering Unicode characters

Entering characters using quoted-insert restricts you to three octal digits, according to its description. read-quoted-char-radix allows decimal or hexadecimal digits to be used instead. The code number to be entered is a bit opaque to me beyond the range of ASCII, or is it 8859-1. Unicode codepoints would be more meaningful. This patch simplisitically allows Unicode to be used. It ought to be enabled by a new custom variable to keep the current behavior OOTB. It should be reasonably safe as unicode-to-char is described as falling back to int-to-char when there is no international support. --- cmdloop.el.orig 2003-07-04 09:35:28.000000000 +0100 +++ cmdloop.el 2006-03-30 15:15:17.746215100 +0100 ＠＠ -604,7 +604,7 ＠＠ (t (setq code (char-to-int char) done t))) (setq first nil)) - (int-to-char code))) + (unicode-to-char code))) ;; in passwd.el. ; (defun read-passwd (prompt &optional confirm default) I'm using XEmacs 21.5.17 on XP. -- Pete Forman -./\.- Disclaimer: This post is originated WesternGeco -./\.- by myself and does not represent pete.forman(a)westerngeco.com -./\.- opinion of Schlumberger, Baker http://petef.port5.com -./\.- Hughes or their divisions.