From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: josh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: umlaut keys don't work in emacs but do in other x apps Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:59:58 +0100 Message-ID: <45B4ED8E.1010708@gmx.de> References: <1169471497.964176.195810@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> <1169479451.304149.40040@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <99587D38-360F-4E2D-87F5-209E5665B87E@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169488429 19027 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2007 17:53:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:53:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 22 18:53:48 2007 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 1H93MU-0004CE-8p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:53:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H93MT-0001Ty-P1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:53:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H92Wm-0003WC-Id for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:00:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H92Wk-0003Vb-Mf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:00:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H92Wk-0003VW-7O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:00:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H92Wi-0002k1-DF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:00:13 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Jan 2007 17:00:00 -0000 Original-Received: from Pfda6.p.pppool.de (EHLO [192.168.2.2]) [89.52.253.166] by mail.gmx.net (mp050) with SMTP; 22 Jan 2007 18:00:00 +0100 X-Authenticated: #23386520 User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) Original-To: Peter Dyballa In-Reply-To: <99587D38-360F-4E2D-87F5-209E5665B87E@Web.DE> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:53:28 -0500 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:40522 Archived-At: 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