NTEmacs and multibyte character entry

NTEmacs and multibyte character entry

[David Abrahams]

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I'm trying to edit a document in windows-1252 encoding, though I would
be happy to use any encoding that allows me to enter an em-dash
character along with "regular" ascii text.  I can build a document
that contains the em-dash (enclosed) and have it display properly in
emacs, but I can't enter the em-dash directly in emacs using the
keyboard (AFAICT), If I try to yank it into emacs after copying it to
the clipboard from another application or copying it to the kill
buffer within emacs, I just see a question mark.

Can anyone help me with this problem?

Thanks in advance


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-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com

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Re: NTEmacs and multibyte character entry

[Jason Rumney]

David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:

> I'm trying to edit a document in windows-1252 encoding, though I would
> be happy to use any encoding that allows me to enter an em-dash
> character along with "regular" ascii text.  I can build a document
> that contains the em-dash (enclosed) and have it display properly in
> emacs, but I can't enter the em-dash directly in emacs using the
> keyboard (AFAICT), If I try to yank it into emacs after copying it to
> the clipboard from another application or copying it to the kill
> buffer within emacs, I just see a question mark.

For the clipboard problem, try setting selection-coding-system to
windows-1252-dos. Setting keyboard-coding-system to windows-1252
might help for typing, otherwise define a function to insert the
character (which you can paste in), and define a convenient
keybinding for it.

Re: NTEmacs and multibyte character entry

[David Abrahams]

jasonr (Jason Rumney) @  f2s.com writes:

> David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
>
>> I'm trying to edit a document in windows-1252 encoding, though I would
>> be happy to use any encoding that allows me to enter an em-dash
>> character along with "regular" ascii text.  I can build a document
>> that contains the em-dash (enclosed) and have it display properly in
>> emacs, but I can't enter the em-dash directly in emacs using the
>> keyboard (AFAICT), If I try to yank it into emacs after copying it to
>> the clipboard from another application or copying it to the kill
>> buffer within emacs, I just see a question mark.
>
> For the clipboard problem, try setting selection-coding-system to
> windows-1252-dos. 

Worked, thanks!

> Setting keyboard-coding-system to windows-1252
> might help for typing

Naw, Emacs seems to interfere with the keyboard handling of the ALT
key and [ALT]+0151 is the only way I know how to type this character.

> , otherwise define a function to insert the character (which you can
> paste in), and define a convenient keybinding for it.

Will do.  Thanks again.  I also found
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/09/27/UniEmacs, which
looks like it'll help when I have time to implement it.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com