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* Undoc accented characters
@ 2003-08-18 15:55 Paul Kinnucan
  2003-08-21 15:17 ` Kai Großjohann
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Paul Kinnucan @ 2003-08-18 15:55 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hi,

Occasionally, I accidentally enter some combination of keystrokes (I
think with my left hand) that causes Emacs to change the meaning of
the keys on my keyboard such that typing a key produces a nonstandard
result, for example, an a with an accent aigu or grave or an o with an
umlaut. What keystrokes trigger this behavior and how can I reenable
the normal behavior?

Paul

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* Re: Undoc accented characters
  2003-08-18 15:55 Undoc accented characters Paul Kinnucan
@ 2003-08-21 15:17 ` Kai Großjohann
  2003-08-22 10:22   ` Oliver Scholz
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kai Großjohann @ 2003-08-21 15:17 UTC (permalink / raw)


Paul Kinnucan <paulk@mathworks.com> writes:

> Occasionally, I accidentally enter some combination of keystrokes (I
> think with my left hand) that causes Emacs to change the meaning of
> the keys on my keyboard such that typing a key produces a nonstandard
> result, for example, an a with an accent aigu or grave or an o with an
> umlaut. What keystrokes trigger this behavior and how can I reenable
> the normal behavior?

What OS?

Hm.  C-x 8 allows you to enter ' a to get á and so on.

C-\ toggles the input method, which might produce all kinds of
interesting effects.  The input method is shown in the modeline, on
the left.
-- 
Two cafe au lait please, but without milk.

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* Re: Undoc accented characters
  2003-08-21 15:17 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 2003-08-22 10:22   ` Oliver Scholz
  2003-08-24 12:59     ` Kai Großjohann
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Oliver Scholz @ 2003-08-22 10:22 UTC (permalink / raw)


kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Paul Kinnucan <paulk@mathworks.com> writes:
>
>> Occasionally, I accidentally enter some combination of keystrokes (I
>> think with my left hand) that causes Emacs to change the meaning of
>> the keys on my keyboard such that typing a key produces a nonstandard
>> result, for example, an a with an accent aigu or grave or an o with an
>> umlaut. What keystrokes trigger this behavior and how can I reenable
>> the normal behavior?
>
> What OS?
>
> Hm.  C-x 8 allows you to enter ' a to get á and so on.
[...]

I suspect that the OP's OS is MS Windows XP. There is a facility to
change the keymap. The OS provides a shortcut for this which uses
some key-combination that is also used by Emacs. But I forgot which
one. I solved this by disabling this keymap facility.

    Oliver
-- 
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Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!

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* Re: Undoc accented characters
  2003-08-22 10:22   ` Oliver Scholz
@ 2003-08-24 12:59     ` Kai Großjohann
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kai Großjohann @ 2003-08-24 12:59 UTC (permalink / raw)


Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:

> I suspect that the OP's OS is MS Windows XP. There is a facility to
> change the keymap. The OS provides a shortcut for this which uses
> some key-combination that is also used by Emacs. But I forgot which
> one. I solved this by disabling this keymap facility.

Ah, I've heard of Ctrl-Shift and Alt-Shift, and also Shift-Shift.
-- 
Two cafe au lait please, but without milk.

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