From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13918: polytonic Greek on Windows Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:54:21 +0200 Message-ID: <83li9ux6nm.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362952515 31678 80.91.229.3 (10 Mar 2013 21:55:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13918@debbugs.gnu.org To: Grant Reaber Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 10 22:55:40 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UEoDT-0006hU-Mw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:55:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53715 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UEoD7-0002D7-Ku for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:55:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46200) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UEoD3-0002Cz-DS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:55:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UEoD2-0001eZ-8r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:55:13 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:40468) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UEoD2-0001eR-48 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:55:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UEoDp-0007oC-LW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:56:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:56:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13918 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 13918-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13918.136295255630004 (code B ref 13918); Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:56:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13918) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Mar 2013 21:55:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44577 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UEoDj-0007nt-Ux for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:55:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:64039) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UEoDh-0007nf-9u for 13918@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:55:54 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MJG00N00SO34200@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 13918@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:54:30 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MJG00M4PSUTQXK0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:54:30 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:72302 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:31:02 +0000 > From: Grant Reaber >=20 > Windows provides a native method of entering polytonic Greek via it= s > polytonic Greek keyboard. This keyboard, which is based on the key= board > used in Greece, is well integrated with the operating system and wo= rks > in almost all Windows applications. Emacs should support it since = it is > the standard way to input polytonic Greek on Windows (and, moreover= , in > my opinion, it is a well-designed input method). Unfortunately, it > unexpectedly fails to work in Emacs. For instance, I can enter = =E1=BE=B6 (a > lower case alpha with a circumflex accent) by > typing '[a', but in emacs doing that just produces a question mark. Please try the latest pretest version of Emacs 24.3, I'm quite sure this is fixed there. > There is a related possible inconvenience that I have noted connect= ed > with using Emacs to edit texts in polytonic Greek. Namely, there a= re a > lot of commands that I don't remember the key combinations for and = run > using M-x, but it is necessary to switch back to the Latin keyboard= to > run any of these commands. Since no Emacs commands have Greek name= s, it > would be convenient if Emacs switched to the Latin keyboard > automatically in this context (and any other context where Latin in= put > is likely to be required). Patches are welcome to implement this (assuming it's possible).