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@@ -2135,6 +2135,16 @@ ought to recognize the Windows language-change event and set up the
appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do that
yet.)
+To bind keys that produce non-ASCII characters with modifiers, you
+must specify raw byte codes. For instance, if you want to bind
+META-a-grave to a command, you need to specify this in your `~/.emacs':
+
+ (global-set-key [?\M-\340] ...)
+
+The above example is for the Latin-1 environment where the byte code
+of the encoded a-grave is 340 octal. For other environments, use the
+encoding appropriate to that environment.
+
The %b specifier for format-time-string does not produce abbreviated
month names with consistent widths for some locales on some versions
of Windows. This is caused by a deficiency in the underlying system