Re: Problems with a scandinavian alphabet on a Debian Linux

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

> 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).

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Greetings

   Pete

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