Emacs non-ascii characters

Emacs non-ascii characters

[John Russell]

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.

John

Re: Emacs non-ascii characters

[Pascal Bourguignon]

John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> 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


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Re: Emacs non-ascii characters

[John Russell]

Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com> writes:

> John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> 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