From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ulrich@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Ulrich Neumerkel) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: German keyboard key bindings? Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:24:50 GMT Organization: Technische Universität Wien, Institut für Computersprachen Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <2003Dec17.222450@a0.complang.tuwien.ac.at> References: <2003Dec16.212444@a0.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <87wu8vywsh.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> Reply-To: ulrich@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071698457 19641 80.91.224.253 (17 Dec 2003 22:00:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 23:00:53 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 1AWjiu-0007DP-00 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 23:00:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AWkfS-00069o-Cc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:01:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!skynet.be!213.51.129.3.MISMATCH!newshub1.home.nl!home.nl!news.cambrium.nl!news.cambrium.nl!news.cambrium.nl!news2.telebyte.nl!news-fra1.dfn.de!newscore.univie.ac.at!aconews-feed.univie.ac.at!aconews.univie.ac.at!not-for-mail X-Newsreader: xrn 9.03-beta-14 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: a0.complang.tuwien.ac.at Original-X-Trace: 1071697462 tunews.univie.ac.at 8840 128.130.173.25 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@tuwien.ac.at Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119459 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:15398 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15398 Kai Grossjohann writes: >ulrich@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Ulrich Neumerkel) writes: > >> To me this seems to be some kind of boot strap problem: In order to >> mention ä one needs to be in a Latin-1 language environment etc. > >Well, C-x 8 " a seems easy enough to type if you need that character. This is not about typing in other characters but referring to them in .el-Files >Since ä is a Latin-1 character, what's the point of making this "key" >available to non-Latin-1 users? This is more about particular keyboard layouts. >;; -*- coding: latin-1; -*- >(global-set-key (kbd "C-ä") 'dabbrev-expand) > >Does this work? Yes, this is definitely better than what I had before, but it is not what my post was about. If latin-1 would be everything, then this would be perfect. If I understand the situation correctly you need for any encoding you care a separate file to define the appropriate bindings. Right? The point would be to be able to refer to different encodings in the same file. -- Ulrich Neumerkel http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ulrich/