From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Trouble typing extended characters with emacsclient Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:43:07 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <874o9ph2ac.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294108839 6732 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2011 02:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 02:40:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 04 03:40:30 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZwp3-0000jA-Po for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:40:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56362 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZwp2-0002kk-W2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:40:29 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Trace: individual.net S5a0ibW+oRcXRsWTAWKNPgIVccJ90le59ft1FrMu/GahwOe/Bs Cancel-Lock: sha1:ODU0YTQ0ODFlNWMwODQyZmFjMzI5OTc5ZmRjOTVhODlkY2ViYWVhNQ== sha1:LX2mOtRB+9arc423EPt3zKJKvJU= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:183938 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78143 Archived-At: Steve Revilak writes: > I'm hoping that one of you could help me with an emacsclient problem. > > When I start emacs as "emacs -Q -nw", I can use the Compose key to > type extended characters. For example the key sequence > > " u > > produces the character "ü". > > I cannot get the same behavior with emacsclient. Specifically, if I > start emacs in daemon mode > > emacs -Q --daemon > > and use "emacsclient myfile.txt", then typing the sequence > above gives "C<" (two characters), rather than ü. > > How does one type extended characters with emacsclient? > > I've observed the same behavior with emacs 23.2 and 23.2.91. I'm > using OpenSUSE 11.3 with KDE 4.4.4. What about iso-transl? (require 'iso-transl) C-x 8 " u --> ü Also, check the encoding codes on the left of the mode line. Do they indicate iso or utf-8, or do they indicate an ASCII display? -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.