(emacs.info) Non-ASCII Rebinding

 
 Non-ASCII Characters on the Keyboard
 ------------------------------------
 
    If your keyboard has keys that send non-ASCII characters, such as
 accented letters, rebinding these keys is a bit tricky.  There are two
 solutions you can use.  One is to specify a keyboard coding system,
 using `set-keyboard-coding-system' ( Specify Coding).  Then you
 can bind these keys in the usual way, but writing
 
      (global-set-key [?CHAR] 'some-function)
 
 and typing the key you want to bind to insert CHAR.
 
    If you don't specify the keyboard coding system, that approach won't
 work.  Instead, you need to find out the actual code that the terminal
 sends.  The easiest way to do this in Emacs is to create an empty buffer
 with `C-x b temp <RET>', make it unibyte with `M-x
 toggle-enable-multibyte-characters <RET>', then type the key to insert
 the character into this buffer.
 
    Move point before the character, then type `C-b C-x ='.  This
 displays a message in the minibuffer, showing the character code in
 three ways, octal, decimal and hexadecimal, all within a set of
 parentheses.  Use the second of the three numbers, the decimal one,
 inside the vector to bind:
 
      (global-set-key [DECIMAL-CODE] 'some-function)

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