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From: "Dirk-Jan C. Binnema" <djcb.bulk@gmail.com>
To: tukuniata <tukuniata@live.com>
Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: can american keyboard write finnish character 'ä', 'ö', 'å' in 	emacs?
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:06:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090325060626.GA6183@mindcrime> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22680583.post@talk.nabble.com>

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 06:36:58AM -0700, tukuniata wrote:
> 
> 
> hi, everybody
> first of all i m new in emacs i have been reading so many tutorial about
> emacs but i m not finding a solution to my problem. i m running my emacs in
> windows xp as i plugin to cygwin. i would like to know if emacs can help me
> to write this finnish character ' ä', 'ö', 'å', with my american keyboard.
> if it is possible how can do?

There are different ways; one that should work is changing the input
method:

M-x set-input-method RET latin-1-prefix RET

Now, typing " and then o will give you ö (o-umlaut), "a => ä, /a => å
and so on. å is swedish, not finnish though :)
 
Good luck!
Dirk.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-25  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-24 13:36 can american keyboard write finnish character 'ä', 'ö', 'å' in emacs? tukuniata
2009-03-25  6:06 ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema [this message]
2009-03-26 15:08 ` tukuniata
     [not found] ` <mailman.4014.1238080116.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-03-27  0:22   ` B. T. Raven
2009-03-27  5:12     ` Jason Rumney
2009-03-27 12:40       ` B. T. Raven
     [not found] <mailman.3943.1237957110.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-03-25  5:41 ` Jason Rumney
2009-03-26 14:19   ` tukuniata
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4012.1238077158.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-03-26 14:54     ` Jason Rumney
2009-03-27  0:16     ` B. T. Raven
2009-03-25  5:47 ` poppyer
2009-03-25  8:29 ` Stefan Kamphausen

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