From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to input opening quote (inverted single quote)? Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:15:07 +0200 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87ejuoc3xg.fsf@robotron.kosmorama> References: <1157506962.356156.107060@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157563478 26776 80.91.229.2 (6 Sep 2006 17:24:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:24:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 06 19:24:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GL18b-0006DZ-Gh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:24:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GL18a-0007Lh-QR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:24:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GL17p-00062T-4n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:23:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GL17n-0005z3-GD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:23:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GL17n-0005yK-75 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:23:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GL17y-0001iq-UH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:23:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GL17P-00061a-Rr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:23:19 +0200 Original-Received: from e178034081.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.34.81]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:23:19 +0200 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178034081.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:23:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178034081.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nUfIi/k5aw6kCWwtd607Z8/O1wk= 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:37199 Archived-At: On 5 Sep 2006 18:42:42 -0700 Ryo wrote: > I'd like to compose email messages containing some Hawaiian > words, some of which require inverted single quatation marks > to indicate glottal stops, such as "Hawai`i". Other special > characters such as "a" ("a" with a macron or bar on its top) > can be input in the latin-4-postfix mode of emacs. (I looked > at Latin-1, -2, -3, and -4 coding set, but I don't think > there's an inverted quotation mark included in them.) Have a look at input methods. E.g: C-\ TeX RET Now you can type fancy chars like in TeX: \lq → ‘ \rq → ’ \"' → “ \=a → ā and so on. Hit TAB after the '\' to see a complete list. Note that there may be a better input method for Hawaiian characters (try M-x describe-input-method). David