From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kamphausen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: can american keyboard write finnish character =?iso-8859-1?q?=27=E4=27=2C_=27=F6=27=2C_=27=E5=27?= in emacs? Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:29:01 +0100 Organization: Church of Emacs Message-ID: <873ad2gg4y.fsf@usenet.my.skamphausen.de> References: 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 1237970480 12649 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2009 08:41:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:41:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 25 09:42:38 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 1LmOgo-0004Eq-KX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:42:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59920 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LmOfR-0004ff-KK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:40:57 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net e2LnycGO5oif026ukJDZpF/E/wSZRkroauI6IQMy2Grf7rC4eqSJWwz+1i8oqYRPCOXk0gf1ecGf44lqldN8gU0Twq0kUxlJDxjmg1K4ZEQY7n/QhhW6N4gDRNbKSC8c Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:29:01 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: 8cYzatrXUrOWDfKq1qUuzQH8GxFQJPMzU0IUPT+CZzM= Cancel-Lock: sha1:p+TCojyc6DU2Np0z23fyDvvVUcQ= sha1:E9/OgBDv817jiiDcWvY1FsoKZp8= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: rUdWjoE0WQVkL/QcDtF3tgDCsubcN7mAp+rPHUR9yXY= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167969 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:63259 Archived-At: Hi, tukuniata writes: > hi, everybody > first of all i m new in emacs i have been reading so many tutorial about > emacs but i m not finding a solution to my problem. i m running my emacs in > windows xp as i plugin to cygwin I don't know nothing about Windows and Cygwin, but isn't a Compose-key-like thing available like it is in X-Windows? I use it all the time. > i would like to know if emacs can help me to write this finnish > character ' ä', 'ö', 'å', with my american keyboard. if it is > possible how can do? Using the compose key you would just type Compose+" followed by an 'a' to get an A DIARESIS. I enable it using keycode 109 = Multi_key in my .Xmodmap. But again: I really can't tell whether this is applicable on the windows platform. Cheers, Stefan -- Stefan Kamphausen --- http://www.skamphausen.de a blessed +42 regexp of confusion (weapon in hand) You hit. The format string crumbles and turns to dust.