From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cor Gest Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: umlaut problem Date: 10 Jun 2004 17:05:42 +0000 Organization: Clsnet Linux Systems Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87hdtje42h.fsf@cleopatra.clsnet.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088535514 17160 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 18:58:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:58:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 20:58:14 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfNo6-0003ZX-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:58:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfNpm-00051n-1v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:59:58 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news2.telebyte.nl!humbolt.nl.linux.org!news.nl.linux.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: clsnet.xs4all.nl Original-X-Trace: humbolt.nl.linux.org 1086887142 29490 213.84.183.106 (10 Jun 2004 17:05:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@nl.linux.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:05:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Www-Site: http://www.clsnet.nl User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123736 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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:19100 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19100 Some witty Entity named: Christian Hofer has unintentionally writen somthing like: > Hi, > > my umlauts are suddenly not shown any more as umlauts, but as {"a} > etc. I don't know what happened to my configuration, and don't know > where to search in the manual (I tried to change the language > environment, but that did not help). > > How can I repair this? You could put in .emacs: ;(setq default-input-method "latin-1-prefix") or in custom-set-variables '((setq default-input-method "latin-1-prefix") then in text-mode CTRL-\ starts the input method and you will have umlauts. cor -- A well regulated free and independent Internet-militia, being necessary to secure a free and independent Internet-community, the right of the people to keep, to develop, and, to implement Free Software Systems and exchange any information thereof, shall not be infringed. (Copyleft:cor2004)