From: Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Undoc accented characters
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:22:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <usmnu56vl.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 84ekzfrqf1.fsf@slowfox.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de
kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Paul Kinnucan <paulk@mathworks.com> writes:
>
>> Occasionally, I accidentally enter some combination of keystrokes (I
>> think with my left hand) that causes Emacs to change the meaning of
>> the keys on my keyboard such that typing a key produces a nonstandard
>> result, for example, an a with an accent aigu or grave or an o with an
>> umlaut. What keystrokes trigger this behavior and how can I reenable
>> the normal behavior?
>
> What OS?
>
> Hm. C-x 8 allows you to enter ' a to get á and so on.
[...]
I suspect that the OP's OS is MS Windows XP. There is a facility to
change the keymap. The OS provides a shortcut for this which uses
some key-combination that is also used by Emacs. But I forgot which
one. I solved this by disabling this keymap facility.
Oliver
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-22 10:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-18 15:55 Undoc accented characters Paul Kinnucan
2003-08-21 15:17 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-08-22 10:22 ` Oliver Scholz [this message]
2003-08-24 12:59 ` Kai Großjohann
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