Re: umlaut keys don't work in emacs but do in other x apps

[josh <jbuhl_nospam@gmx.de>]

Hi Peter,

thanks for your continued help...

> On the command line: env | egrep 'LC|LANG'

josh@om:~$ env | egrep 'LC|LANG'
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
GDM_LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

(no LC var set...)

> There is one more thing: what is put into the *mail* buffer when you
> choose 'Send Bug Report…' from the Help menu? It reveals the configure
> options. Do they look right?

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: de_DE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

so lang is set, but the LC vars aren't. However, if I set them in a term
and start emacs, the "send bug report" reports them, but I still have
the same problem with the umlaut keys...

> Since I am still bound to X11R6 on my Mac I have no real idea of the
> cause that XLookupString returns 0. The programme xmodmap can print the
> key bindings in X:
> 
>     xmodmap -pk
> 
> Are the umlauts and ß mentioned in first and second column like some 7
> bit characters? Or do they need modifiers?

I can't tell if they need modifiers, but they are mentioned and the
output looks similar to yours:


20         0x00df (ssharp) 0x003f (question)       0x005c (backslash)
   0x00bf (questiondown)   0x005c (backslash)      0x00bf (questiondown)

34         0x00fc (udiaeresis)     0x00dc (Udiaeresis)     0x00a8
(diaeresis)      0x00a8 (diaeresis)      0x00a8 (diaeresis)      0x00a8
(diaeresis)

47         0x00f6 (odiaeresis)     0x00d6 (Odiaeresis)     0x01bd
(doubleacute)    0x01bd (doubleacute)    0x01bd (doubleacute)    0x01bd
(doubleacute)

48         0x00e4 (adiaeresis)     0x00c4 (Adiaeresis)     0x005e
(asciicircum)    0x005e (asciicircum)    0x005e (asciicircum)    0x005e
(asciicircum)



-j