'string' field in a GdkEventKey structure as ISO-8859-1, which was
correct for GTK 1.2 but in 2.0 that field is encoded according to
the current C library locale. Hence, we now process that field by
converting it to UTF-8 via trips through both libc and libcharset,
and then let lpage_send() convert from UTF-8 back to whatever it's
supposed to actually go down the line in.
[originally from svn r8470]