umlaut problem

umlaut problem

[Christian Hofer]

Hi,

my umlauts are suddenly not shown any more as umlauts, but as {"a} etc. 
I don't know what happened to my configuration, and don't know where to 
search in the manual (I tried to change the language environment, but 
that did not help).

How can I repair this?

Thanks in advance,
Chris

Re: umlaut problem

[Cor Gest]

Some witty Entity named: Christian Hofer <ch_spam@gmx.de>
 has unintentionally writen somthing like:

> Hi,
> 
> my umlauts are suddenly not shown any more as umlauts, but as {"a}
> etc. I don't know what happened to my configuration, and don't know
> where to search in the manual (I tried to change the language
> environment, but that did not help).
> 
> How can I repair this?

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.



cor


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Re: umlaut problem

[Christian Hofer]

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

Re: umlaut problem

[Cor Gest]

Some witty Entity named: Christian Hofer <ch_spam@gmx.de>
 has unintentionally writen somthing like:

> 
> (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}.

It could be due to the setting in MULE evironmemt

(emacs 21.3) from menu
Options > MULE > set Language Environmet > European > German

after setting and trying : Options > Save settings

this should put the MULE envvars in .emacs


(Or indeed a non dl characters  compatatible fontset)

HTH

Cor

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Re: umlaut problem

[Christian Hofer]

Cor Gest <cor@clsnet.nl> writes:
> It could be due to the setting in MULE evironmemt
> 
> (emacs 21.3) from menu
> Options > MULE > set Language Environmet > European > German

That is what I tried, but it did not work. Maybe I did s.th. wrong. I
cannot reproduce the behaviour anymore anyway. So maybe I should just
be satisfied until it happens again...

But I just realized there is a special coding system for terminal
output. Maybe I somehow set this to a wrong value...

Chris

Re: umlaut problem

[Cor Gest]

Some witty Entity named: Christian Hofer <ch_spam@gmx.de>
 has unintentionally writen somthing like:

> That is what I tried, but it did not work. Maybe I did s.th. wrong. I
> cannot reproduce the behaviour anymore anyway. So maybe I should just
> be satisfied until it happens again...
> 
> But I just realized there is a special coding system for terminal
> output. Maybe I somehow set this to a wrong value...

could be, I think it is set to vt100 by default

Cor

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Re: umlaut problem

[LEE Sau Dan]

>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Hofer <ch_spam@gmx.de> writes:

    Christian> But I just realized there is a special coding system
    Christian> for terminal output. Maybe I somehow set this to a
    Christian> wrong value...

M-x set-terminal-coding-system iso-8859-1 RET

may solve your  problem.  Does the "Grüß Gott"  show up correctly when
you type C-h H?  (This can tell whether it's a display problem, as you
don't need to type in any special letters.  I guess yours is a display
problem.)


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Re: umlaut problem

[Kai Grossjohann]

Christian Hofer <ch_spam@gmx.de> writes:

> my umlauts are suddenly not shown any more as umlauts, but as {"a}
> etc.

Looks like the output of iso-cvt.el.

What does C-h k ä say?  It should say self-insert-command.

Kai