From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Hofer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: umlaut problem Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:42:32 +0200 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87hdtje42h.fsf@cleopatra.clsnet.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088535655 17713 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 19:00:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:00:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 21:00:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfNqc-0003s9-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:00:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfNsI-0006l7-3w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:02:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!feed.news.tiscali.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5080e1c9.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Original-X-Trace: online.de 1086950551 9349 80.128.225.201 (11 Jun 2004 10:42:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:42:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040525) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87hdtje42h.fsf@cleopatra.clsnet.nl> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123747 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19108 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19108 Cor Gest wrote: > You could put in .emacs: > > ;(setq default-input-method "latin-1-prefix") > > or in custom-set-variables '((setq default-input-method "latin-1-prefix") > then in text-mode CTRL-\ starts the input method and you will have > umlauts. Thank you for your answer. While my problem has disappeared today with starting the next Emacs session, I would still be glad to find out, what the problem was (it is always good to know, how the internals work). I suppose, I could not make it clear, what my problem is (sorry, my English is not the best). I read in the info what the input-method is, and it does not concern my problem. I have a german keyboard with umlauts, so I suppose I do not need an input method. (Sidenote: On the other hand, the default-input-method variable is set to "german-postfix" (as standard, without setting it in .emacs). But when I try to switch to this input method, I just get the error: activate-input-method: Can't activate input method `german-postfix' Not very helpful...) My problem seems to have been some sort of display problem. Maybe it was the wrong fontset? While the saved file contained all the umlauts I typed (so it does not seem to be an encoding problem), in the Emacs buffer they have been displayed as {"a}. As I said, I did not find any information about that in the info. Chris