Windows provides a native method of entering polytonic Greek via its polytonic Greek keyboard. This keyboard, which is based on the keyboard used in Greece, is well integrated with the operating system and works 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 ᾶ (a lower case alpha with a circumflex accent) by typing '[a', but in emacs doing that just produces a question mark. As another example, I can enter ᾷ (a lower case alpha with a circumflex accent and an iota subscript) by typing '[' while holding the right alt key and then typing 'a', but of course this also fails in Emacs. There is a related possible inconvenience that I have noted connected with using Emacs to edit texts in polytonic Greek. Namely, there are 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 names, it would be convenient if Emacs switched to the Latin keyboard automatically in this context (and any other context where Latin input is likely to be required). By the way, while trying to send this bug report from Emacs, I noticed another thing that doesn't work as smoothly as it should. I use Gmail, and I think it is possible to send mail through Gmail using its smtp server, but obviously it will want a password. But giving the Gmail smtp server to the mail program invoked by the bug reporting function just failed and sent me some cryptic error message that the server sent it. This could be much more user friendly. In fact, given how popular Gmail is, it should probably just be one of the options presented to the user for sending mail. (I ended up cutting and pasting the message into my web browser.) In GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.2.9200) of 2012-08-29 on MARVIN Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.2.9200 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --cflags -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: DEU value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: cp1252 default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? C-y M-x ρ ε π ο ρ M-x C-g σ δ λ κ φ ξ δ λ φ κ ξ λ δ κ C-a C-k M-x κ ξ SPC κ C-g M-x r e p o r SPC b SPC Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Mark set delete-backward-char: Text is read-only [2 times] Quit [2 times] Quit Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail regexp-opt rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 disp-table ls-lisp w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces cus-face files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process multi-tty emacs)