Problem with the input of '€' (U+20AC EURO SIGN) with ~/.Xmodmap

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an tríú lá is fiche de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: 

 > Mike FABIAN writes:
 > 
 >  > Strange. Why does changing
 >  > 
 >  >     keysym c = c NoSymbol 0x010000a2 currency
 >  > 
 >  > to
 >  > 
 >  >     keysym c = c NoSymbol cent       currency
 >  > 
 >  > in ~/.Xmodmap make the ¢ work then?
 > 
 > The reason there *can be* a difference is because the former follows
 > the path keysym -> Unicode -> Mule, while the latter follows keysym ->
 > <X11/keysymdef.h> -> Mule.

That’s true of the X11 side, but not of the XEmacs code. 

As I say, I don’t see this :-/ . 

 > Why there is a difference in practice I'm not sure; there historically
 > was a lot of confusion between ASCII and ISO 8859/1 in Mule, maybe
 > this is a remnant.

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