Re: How to type a "c" with cedilla in emacs

["Edward Casey" <ejmn@cpinternet.com>]

"Pascal Bourguignon" <spam@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
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> upro <upro@gmx.net> writes:
>
> > Hi there!
> >
> >
> > I can't figure out how to type a "c" with cedilla in emacs. I have a
> > German keyboard without that character.
> >
> > Can anyone help me out?
> >
> > Thank you in advance!
>
> C-x 8 , c --> [c cedilla was here]
>
> All ISO-8859 characters are accessible with C-x 8.
>
> --

Oops! Sorry about sending this to you personally, Pascal. I meant to post it here. Hopefully the
other copy got caught by your spam trap.


> Is that true of all character sets latin-iso8859-1.... latin-iso8859-15? If I type C-x 8 C-h I see
> that only a few of those characters are bound to keys. How are the others generated without using
> leim input methods?
>
> Ed.
>
> btw, with View > Encoding > Unicode I see [chinese ideogram]R instead of c cedilla. Viewing with
> Windows European I see the c cedilla again and going back to Unicode I see nothing. ??? Wouldn't
it
> help if everyone used this most general encoding (viz. Unicode) when posting and talking about
non-English characters?