bug#37769: global-set-key wrongly downcases the typed key (e.g. S-tab).

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Andreas.

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 11:17:48 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Okt 15 2019, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:

> > As a consequence, it is impossible to use M-x global-set-key to bind
> > S-tab on a tty where local-function-key-map converts S-tab to [33554441]
> > = 2^25 + 9.

> Why is that wrong?  [33554441] _is_ S-TAB.

Yes.  But if you type the key binding into M-x global-set-key, it will
erroneously bind TAB rather than S-TAB.

> Andreas.

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