From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Merciadri Luca Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dead circumflex? Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 02:25:07 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2bd80586-92f2-4bfe-8b9e-4bb4203ead27@v20g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> References: <87ab2id0dl.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> <98ecfecc-d080-40fe-b1d1-ebcf67da6595@j21g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> <87k51m6lr8.fsf@student.ulg.ac.be> <87tz0pudn6.fsf@student.ulg.ac.be> <87ljm18hmo.fsf@student.ulg.ac.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249399670 18325 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2009 15:27:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 15:27:50 +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 Aug 04 17:27:44 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MYLvS-00006Q-PJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:27:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39513 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYLvS-0002pX-1t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:27:42 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v20g2000yqm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 92 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.197.111.8 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249377907 29414 127.0.0.1 (4 Aug 2009 09:25:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:25:07 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v20g2000yqm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=62.197.111.8; posting-account=V6LrigoAAACudvZ0KlT32AF1BSfjssFY User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.0.12) Gecko/2009070611 Firefox/3.0.12,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171548 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:24:45 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66734 Archived-At: On 3 ao=FBt, 09:46, Merciadri Luca wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > "B. T. Raven" writes: > > > Hmm. Maybe scim modified something. Is there anything in your .emacs > > that looks suspicious. > Not really. > > Have you discovered why C-x Ret C-\ does not > > work? > No. > > Is this on Linux? > > Yes, both Debian and Ubuntu.> Is there an Xmodmap keyboard config around > > anywhere? > No. > > If you chose latin-1-postfix, what does e^ produce other > > than the non existent deadkey warning. > > I cannot choose latin1-postfix. Note that I have two computers: > - - On the laptop, running Ubuntu, the circumflex is well placed under > all the other applications. The only app where it does not work is > Emacs. > - - On the other, running Debian, the circumflex is always put near the > letter, but never at its top, as I want it to be. > > On both computers, Emacs treats it as being > undefined. > > > I assume that the caret key on > > keyboard matches where it should be on the Fr layout. =A0If you can get > > anything in by hook or crook, does C-x =3D show something like this, > > mutatis mutandis: =A0 > > > Char: =EA (2282, #o4352, #x8ea, file ...) point=3D2 of 5152 (0%) column= =3D0 > > Char: ^ (94, #o136, #x5e) point=3D2 of 5154 (0%) column=3D0 > > It shows info for all the characters, but as I cannot type the > circumflex in Emacs, I can't figure out which message it could display > for it. > > > > > This is on ver 22.3 > > > If I install a Fr keyboard on w32 (2000) and with input method > > latin-1-postfix, because of the French keyboard, input works > > backwards, i.e press caret (to right of p) and then e, produces > > circumflex e but it is still reported as: > > > Char: =EA (2282, #o4352, #x8ea, file ...) > > Lucky you. Ok. > > > > > Same behavior with dieresis or umlaut: dead key invisible until next > > key pressed. In fact I can find no backslash on the French keyboard at > > all. > > I have the same problem with dieresis or umlaut. It then shows, > e.g. for dieresis: not defined. > > > > > Another possibility is to set the keyboard to English via the OS and > > then chose one of the French input methods via Mule. That way you > > would at least have a backslash. Most if not all vowels with > > diacritics are on the number keys. > > I tried it. The situation keeps being the same. Note that, as I said > above, I can type a backlash, and other strange characters, but > dieresis and circumflex accent do not work. > > - -- > Merciadri Luca > Seehttp://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ > I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail > client, please contact me. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 > > iEYEARECAAYFAkp2lb8ACgkQM0LLzLt8MhzTswCgpspY3cmIum+Ncac4mK3vctrH > VrQAoJg9cEv6lKXoyBXwtggPqD5VsYmz > =3DC/Bd > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Any idea?