From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: accented letters ( typing in ) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:16:07 -0700 Message-ID: <20140118201607.GA23348@hysteria.proulx.com> References: <1389982848501-310678.post@n5.nabble.com> <20140117230736.GA30062@hysteria.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390076189 18482 80.91.229.3 (18 Jan 2014 20:16:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:16:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Michel Chassey Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 18 21:16:35 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W4cJk-0000Y9-Up for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:16:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44162 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4cJk-00083s-CZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:16:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33878) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4cJT-00082v-1x for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:16:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4cJN-0004UT-1q for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:16:14 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:60616) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4cJM-0004UL-Qf for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:16:08 -0500 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D513121227; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:16:07 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A3C082DCD2; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:16:07 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: Michel Chassey , Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95491 Archived-At: Michel Chassey wrote: > Running emacs from the ctrl + meta + F1 terminal produces weird chars when > I try accented chars. > I'm still a noob when setting up environment variables . Ubuntu keyboard > system have not changed but maybe as one poster suggests it is a bug. The > only thing that works right now is the CTRL + 8 compose method. I have > tried changing input methods but no cigar . What is produced in the terminal Without running emacs but just typing in those characters? If you start the terminal and then try typing in those accented characters what is produced? If it works in the terminal then it should work in emacs running in the terminal. If it doesn't work in the terminal then it can't work in emacs running in the terminal either. The terminal test is a good test of what the system supports outside of emacs. The GUI version of emacs uses a different input method however. Since you said you normally use the GUI version of emacs then that part will still need to be solved. > One question an OP has asked is how the apostrophe works and it gets typed > in the first time. Another poster suggested a newer version of emacs and I > will try that. This emacs functionality has been quite stable for me across many years of versions. I really doubt it is an emacs bug that is causing you this problem. I use emacs 23 on many Debian systems and this works for me. You said you were running Ubuntu 13.10 with emacs 23. That seems unusual since I think Ubuntu 2013.10 would have been emacs 24. Perhaps your system wasn't fully upgraded to 13.10? I know that there have been significant recent changes to the console and keyboard in Debian and I assume in Ubuntu too. Therefore I think that much more likely. It is good that the C-x 8 compose method is working and that is why it is there. To provide a system independent way to generate those characters inside emacs. Also it seems to be saying that emacs is handling this okay. If the system keyboard compose key entered those then I believe it should handle it okay too. Bob