From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problems with a scandinavian alphabet on a Debian Linux Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:26:54 -0500 Message-ID: <4B2F5B7E.5010302@mousecar.com> References: <14674AE9-1203-495D-B940-FADD2EF82F9C@iki.fi> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1261394944 12651 80.91.229.12 (21 Dec 2009 11:29:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:29:04 +0000 (UTC) To: GNU Emacs List Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 21 12:28:58 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 1NMgRd-00047O-Iz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:28:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33171 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NMgRd-0000sH-NY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:28:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NMgQ0-0008MR-Je for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:27:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NMgPy-0008K8-Mv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:27:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41822 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NMgPy-0008Jp-BK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:27:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.195]:65327) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NMgPx-0005Aw-TM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:27:14 -0500 Original-Received: from dellap.mousecar.net (dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.17]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MZB9o-1NauRr0EbU-00LPXZ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:27:00 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090625) In-Reply-To: <14674AE9-1203-495D-B940-FADD2EF82F9C@iki.fi> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=5AD091E7 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/yXeT5x1Eld0ehpDL0jAq2lfSsJUQFGjH//5I C4Xphz7A0wPxGPhsu09Ebh7tjHGu9H2zvrjaFLySxY57WVLJrY VQFUYNNuxTaLQ9VvIkQpUqYMWcVrioD X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:70772 Archived-At: 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, 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....