Problems with a scandinavian alphabet on a Debian Linux

Problems with a scandinavian alphabet on a Debian Linux

[Petri Kaurinkoski]

Hi,

I am using a Debian Linux system at home and for a while I have been  
struggling with a major annoyance. Namely, when writing any Finnish  
text (or Swedish text for that matter), I am in need to produce the  
letter 'ä'. However, when I press the key 'ä' what appears on my GNU- 
Emacs screen running in an X-window is 'ae'. Now this sounds to me  
like mapping non-US characters to US replacements. But at the same  
time the rest of the scandinavian alphabets are produced properly,  
i.e. I get 'åöÅÄÖ' properly to the screen. Only the lower case 'ä' is  
behaving in a strange way.

Unfortunately I can not tell exactly when this strange behaviour  
started, but I have never seen it before during the 15+ years of  
ahppily using GNU-Emacs. The version of Emacs I am running right now  
is 23.1.1.

My guess is something is misconfigured during an upgrade, I just do  
not know what. Any clues are highly appreciated.

Best regards,

Petri

--
  Petri Kaurinkoski <Petri.Kaurinkoski@iki.fi>

Re: Problems with a scandinavian alphabet on a Debian Linux

[ken]

On 12/19/2009 05:15 PM Petri Kaurinkoski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using a Debian Linux system at home and for a while I have been
> struggling with a major annoyance. Namely, when writing any Finnish text
> (or Swedish text for that matter), I am in need to produce the letter
> 'ä'. However, when I press the key 'ä' what appears on my GNU-Emacs
> screen running in an X-window is 'ae'. Now this sounds to me like
> mapping non-US characters to US replacements. But at the same time the
> rest of the scandinavian alphabets are produced properly, i.e. I get
> 'åöÅÄÖ' properly to the screen. Only the lower case 'ä' is behaving in a
> strange way.
> 
> Unfortunately I can not tell exactly when this strange behaviour
> started, but I have never seen it before during the 15+ years of ahppily
> using GNU-Emacs. The version of Emacs I am running right now is 23.1.1.
> 
> My guess is something is misconfigured during an upgrade, I just do not
> know what. Any clues are highly appreciated.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Petri
> 
> -- 
>  Petri Kaurinkoski <Petri.Kaurinkoski@iki.fi>

Petri,

Are you getting this behavior only in emacs or in other applications
also?  E.g., if you type into a terminal, does pressing the keys you
mention produce the same characters?

Just a beginning question....

Re: Problems with a scandinavian alphabet on a Debian Linux

[Peter Dyballa]

> On 12/19/2009 05:15 PM Petri Kaurinkoski wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using a Debian Linux system at home and for a while I have been
>> struggling with a major annoyance. Namely, when writing any Finnish  
>> text
>> (or Swedish text for that matter), I am in need to produce the letter
>> 'ä'. However, when I press the key 'ä' what appears on my GNU-Emacs
>> screen running in an X-window is 'ae'. Now this sounds to me like
>> mapping non-US characters to US replacements. But at the same time  
>> the
>> rest of the scandinavian alphabets are produced properly, i.e. I get
>> 'åöÅÄÖ' properly to the screen. Only the lower case 'ä' is behaving  
>> in a
>> strange way.


Does the same happen when you launch GNU Emacs with -Q or -q, i.e.,  
without any or without your own customisation? If not, then you are  
introducing the observed failures (as left-over from non-Unicode GNU  
Emacs 22.x, for example).

--
Greetings

   Pete

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