From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs non-ascii characters Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:05:00 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87r799x4fn.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: <87iruloq0d.fsf@cisco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132596661 2491 80.91.229.2 (21 Nov 2005 18:11:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:11:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 21 19:10:55 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeG4G-0008KP-N4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:07:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeG4E-0005Ij-Ro for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:07:02 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!easynet-quince!easynet.net!easynet-post2!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help 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/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:b5RGAv4RNL4t7h3eWeMI5jakGU8= Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.93.174.79 Original-X-Trace: DXC=RBfleWClG4AQT9M2MOmiVB_51]<;N?4WAbBd4DjF1d]A Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135619 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:31217 Archived-At: 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 -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ In deep sleep hear sound, Cat vomit hairball somewhere. Will find in morning.