From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Haines Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inputting characters with specialist diacritic marks in emacs Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:00:49 -0500 Message-ID: <20160119150049.GF11262@engels.historicalmaterialism.info> References: <571eb6f1-614e-4ec0-9c55-bbe1fbfb9ddc@googlegroups.com> 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 1453215693 28520 80.91.229.3 (19 Jan 2016 15:01:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:01:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 19 16:01:22 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1aLXmc-0005De-92 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 16:01:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37398 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLXmb-0004p3-Qu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:01:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43715) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLXmP-0004oU-AR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:01:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLXmJ-0001vB-NP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:01:09 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-relay1.guardedhost.com ([216.239.133.201]:44570) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLXmJ-0001uD-Gy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:01:03 -0500 Original-Received: from ten-mx01.omnis.com (ten-mx01.omnis.com [216.239.133.141]) by outbound-relay.guardedhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3plCpt2SL4z3yNk for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:00:53 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from engels.histomat.net (unknown [32.210.114.254]) (Authenticated sender: brownh@historicalmaterialism.info) by ten-mx01.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3plCpq6glzzyc3 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:00:51 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from haines by engels.histomat.net with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aLXm5-0002Zf-8y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:00:49 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <571eb6f1-614e-4ec0-9c55-bbe1fbfb9ddc@googlegroups.com> X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae Debian Wheezy X-URL: www.historicalMaterialism.info User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: haines@engels.historicalmaterialism.info X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on engels.histomat.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.6 at ten-mx01.omnis.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse-Id: 76a4afed-762a-4c68-a50e-1644fa6859df X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.239.133.201 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108777 Archived-At: On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 05:30:00AM -0800, mikew2801@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > I am a linguist who works particularly with Indic languages. I am > trying to do most of my work in emacs, but I am having problems using > characters with diacritic marks (for instance =C4=81, =C4=AB and so on)= which > are commonly used to transliterate old Indic languages such as > Sanskrit and Pali. Might not be helpful because I don't know if you prepare documents with LaTeX. But when I put N\=3D{a}g\=3D{a}rjuna into a TeX document and proce= ss it with pdfLaTeX, it shows up as N=C4=81g=C4=81rjuna. For scripts such as Tamil =E0=AE=85=E0=AE=AF=E0=AF=8D=E0=AE=AF=E0=AE=BE =E0= =AE=B5=E0=AE=A3=E0=AE=95=E0=AF=8D=E0=AE=95=E0=AE=AE=E0=AF=8D, I suspect y= ou have to use XeLaTeX rather than pdfLaTeX with a supporting font. LaTeX-Indic is a Omega package that will enable the use of Indic languages LaTeX documents without any preprocessing. If you don't use LaTeX, you might do as I did for an array of even more obscure characters. Rather than look up the Unicode each time, I have a crib sheet with lists of caron, breve and macron and other characters and simply yank/past from it as needed. Another path is to use a Unicode editor such as Yudit, but I've no experience with it. Haines Brown