NOTE: This patch has been committed. Ar an naoiú lá de mí Aibréan, scríobh Aidan Kehoe: And, done. quoted-insert’s docstring should mention read-quoted-char-radix somewhere, but that’s another problem. lisp/ChangeLog addition: 2006-04-15 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * cmdloop.el (read-quoted-char): Use unicode-to-char instead of int-to-char for converting code points to characters; document this usage. This is compatible with previously documented behaviour, since the mapping from number to character was only stable and well-defined for ISO-8859-1. Thank you Pete Forman! Document some help subsystem incompatibility with GNU that seems to have been ignored during the last sync. XEmacs Trunk source patch: Diff command: cvs -q diff -u Files affected: lisp/cmdloop.el Index: lisp/cmdloop.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/cmdloop.el,v retrieving revision 1.19 diff -u -u -r1.19 cmdloop.el --- lisp/cmdloop.el 2006/01/08 20:00:43 1.19 +++ lisp/cmdloop.el 2006/04/15 14:36:55 ＠＠ -542,13 +542,16 ＠＠ :group 'editing-basics) (defun read-quoted-char (&optional prompt) + ;; XEmacs change; description of the character code input "Like `read-char', but do not allow quitting. -Also, if the first character read is an octal digit, -we read any number of octal digits and return the -specified character code. Any nondigit terminates the sequence. -If the terminator is RET, it is discarded; -any other terminator is used itself as input. +Also, if the first character read is a digit of base (the value of) +`read-quoted-char-radix', we read as many of such digits as are +typed and return a character with the corresponding Unicode code +point. Any input that not a digit (in the base used) terminates the +sequence. If the terminator is RET, it is discarded; any other +terminator is used itself as input. + The optional argument PROMPT specifies a string to use to prompt the user. The variable `read-quoted-char-radix' controls which radix to use for numeric input." ＠＠ -558,13 +561,20 ＠＠ ) (while (not done) (let ((inhibit-quit first) - ;; Don't let C-h get the help message--only help function keys. + ;; Don't let C-h get the help message--only help + ;; function keys. + ;; XEmacs: we don't support the help function keys as of + ;; 2006-04-16. GNU have a Vhelp_event_list in addition + ;; to help-char in src/keyboard.c, and it's only useful + ;; to set help-form while help-char is nil when that + ;; functionality is available. (help-char nil) - (help-form + (help-form (format "Type the special character you want to use, -or the octal character code. +or the character code, base %d (the value of `read-quoted-char-radix') RET terminates the character code and is discarded; -any other non-digit terminates the character code and is then used as input.")) +any other non-digit terminates the character code and is then used as input." + read-quoted-char-radix))) (and prompt (display-message 'prompt (format "%s-" prompt))) (setq event (next-command-event) char (or (event-to-character event) ＠＠ -605,7 +615,8 ＠＠ (t (setq code (char-to-int char) done t))) (setq first nil)) - (int-to-char code))) + ;; XEmacs change; unicode-to-char instead of int-to-char + (unicode-to-char code))) ;; in passwd.el. ; (defun read-passwd (prompt &optional confirm default) -- In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And God was a bug-eyed, hexagonal smurf with a head of electrified hair; and God said: “Si, mi chiamano Mimi...”