From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Russell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs non-ascii characters Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:19:32 -0500 Organization: Cisco Systems Inc. Message-ID: <877jb1olkr.fsf@cisco.com> References: <87iruloq0d.fsf@cisco.com> <87r799x4fn.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132600874 17285 80.91.229.2 (21 Nov 2005 19:21:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:21:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 21 20:21:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeHDF-0002sm-FI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:20:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeHDE-0003sQ-Mj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:20:24 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!hwmnpeer01.lga!hwmedia!hw-filter.phx!fe10.phx.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:06ud0urMzqEmNHMsWp6536VnccU= Cache-Post-Path: sj-nntpcache-3!unknown@dhcp-10-86-164-253.cisco.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b2 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 171.69.11.153 Original-X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@cisco.com Original-X-Trace: fe10.phx 1132600772 171.69.11.153 (Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:19:32 MST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:19:32 MST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135623 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:31221 Archived-At: Pascal Bourguignon writes: > John Russell writes: > >> I just compiled emacs from CVS a few weeks ago. When I enter a double-quote >> and then some characters ( usually vowels ) the two characters get replaced >> with some other character, like a 'u' with an umlaut or some other accent >> mark. >> >> I have been searching around for it but I don't even know what this "feature" >> is called. I looked in the emacs news ( C-h n ) and found something about >> quail which I'm not sure is related. >> >> Anyway, how do I turn this off? I want to be able to type strings in code >> again without accents. Thanks. > > This is a prefix input method. > > You can try: C-\ > to toggle-input-method. > > Or C-x set-input-method RET > to select another input method. > > Perhaps set the default input method? > C-h v default-input-method RET > Excellent. Thank you very much. I must have been fat-fingering C-\ from time to time and turning that on inadvertantly. Thanks again. John