From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: NT Emacs Latin & cyrillic script Date: 10 Apr 2003 22:19:29 +0200 Organization: None Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050006159 26859 80.91.224.249 (10 Apr 2003 20:22:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:22:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 10 22:22:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 193iZ1-0006xa-00 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:22:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 193iXU-0005lU-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:20:52 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!cicero.benny.turtle-trading.net!nobody Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 48 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111859 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8360 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8360 Hi Ulrich, "Ulrich Dirr" writes: > I've downloaded a precompiled version of 21.2 and installed it. > Everything is working well, even auctex (on Win2k). > > But I would like to input and display latin and cyrillic scripts > simultaneously. I've read a lot of docs but now I'm more confused than > before. > > [...] > > Does the language/keyboard support which I've activated in Win2k help? > Or is this independent of emacs? It helps, but it is independent of Emacs. Because Emacs doesn't (yet) use Unicode input, in addition to tell the OS to *send* cyrillic keyboard input, you need to tell Emacs to switch *interpreting* keyboard input in cyrillic. So first you use set-keyboard-coding-system (C-x RET k) to switch Emacs to cyrillic, than you use the languages menu on the taskbar (or a Windows keyboard shortcut, if you have assigned one) to switch the OS. You do it the other way around to switch out of cyrillic. One problem is that 21.2 doesn't have the appropriate coding system for cyrillic on Windows (cp1251) [*] which you need as a parameter for set-keyboard-coding-system. You can get it from Emacs CVS (lisp/international/code-pages.el) but last I tried that version with Emacs 21.2 it required some support files and tweaking. Mail me for details if you want to pursue this and you can't get it to work. [*] Somebody please correct me if I am wrong. And no, cp1251 doesn't seem to be compatible with iso8859-5. An alternative would of course be to get Emacs from CVS and compile it yourself, if you can do that. > It should be possible to input cyrillic easily with my keyboard. It > should display correctly as cyrillic, and it should be possible to > TeX it (say T2A encoding). And I want to be able to switch to latin > back. I don't know about TeX specific issues. Hope this helps, benny