From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Voit Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ispell/flyspell and german umlauts Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 01:41:48 +0200 Organization: www.karl-voit.at Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: news@Karl-Voit.at NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1060127275 30031 80.91.224.253 (5 Aug 2003 23:47:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 23:47:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 06 01:48:15 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19kBXK-0003iw-00 for ; Wed, 06 Aug 2003 01:48:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19kBV3-0003ah-0l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2003 19:45:53 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!i-196.vc-graz.ac.AT!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: i-196.vc-graz.ac.at (193.170.225.196) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1060126985 28381497 193.170.225.196 (16 [164903]) X-Orig-Path: lisa.homeunix.net!news X-No-Archive: no X-GPG-Key: http://www.Karl-Voit.at/Karl_Voit_GnuPG_public_key.gpg X-Registered-Linux-User: 224337 X-Confession: church of TUX X-Face: 0.jT^"<'ITetBu!Tz2)mF"hHU|N.Ys; ^AFqy1:C}J7$+yq^bXgqSe!zg%1U$a.Pxp!|2v19pW,|L~{xnuxO<0%VZu~BNm4xW?/-:59.g!g}Vo4.xm\-5{3:lJ{{OU!Z/uX9aZi=d*Epx!&>!"HE2ha?C=[+l5&+'{vx*'FDQzMdHZoJUj~6I9B:9lU\]J!6I~q%xSb@*"DYN2fC@kXQ(>^#N User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:115695 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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:11613 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11613 * Oliver Scholz wrote: > Karl Voit writes: > >> I am using emacs 21.3.2 and flyspell. I managed to configure it to >> german as standard dictionary. But when I am using emacs to write >> usegroup postings, I prefer tying 'ae' instead of umlaut-'a' and so >> on. > > [Huh? In the year 2003? In stark contrast to this I don't use even ISO > 8859 anymore ... Well, YMMV.] Well, I didn't thought that _this_ might be misunderstood :-) I prefer typing 'ae' instead of 'ä' not only because of being nice to non-german speaking configurations but because of my english keyboard layout. > I'd say it's a lot easier, however, to write your messages as usual > with umlauts and encode this to duden upon sending it. TNX for this workaround but because of my keyboard layout, I'd prefer another solution or I just skip flyspell-check for usenet :-( -- Karl VOIT, Graz University of Technology (Austria/Europe)