From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac? Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:54:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1481056342.3486002.810530185.08361AFB@webmail.messagingengine.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481144153 12012 195.159.176.226 (7 Dec 2016 20:55:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 20:55:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Mark H. David" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 07 21:55:49 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cEjFk-0002Da-Cs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 21:55:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42025 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEjFo-0003Ue-Gh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:55:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43909) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEjEx-0003QQ-3n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:54:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEjEw-0005Ox-Ep for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:54:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56732) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEjEu-0005Np-4G; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:54:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cEjEt-0006MX-Kx; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:54:55 -0500 In-reply-to: <1481056342.3486002.810530185.08361AFB@webmail.messagingengine.com> (mhd@yv.org) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:210109 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > This relies heavily on using the Mac keyboard's option key, since > that's used for typing Hebrew character combinations, which > involves inserting Unicode characters from the Hebrew range as a > sequence of two characters: a base Hebrew character plus a > diacritic character, known as nikud, the combination of which I'm > calling here collectively "Hebrew with nikud". What about when not using a Mac keyboard? How good is our support for this feature on ordinary PC keyboards with the GNU/Linux system? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.