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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: mikew <mikew2801@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inputting characters with specialist diacritic marks in emacs
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:03:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twm95zfy.fsf@mithlond.arda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <571eb6f1-614e-4ec0-9c55-bbe1fbfb9ddc@googlegroups.com> (mikew's message of "Tue, 19 Jan 2016 05:30:00 -0800 (PST)")

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mikew [2016-01-19 05:30:00-08] wrote:

> I am a linguist who works particularly with Indic languages. I am
> trying to do most of my work in emacs, but I am having problems using
> characters with diacritic marks (for instance ā, ī and so on) which
> are commonly used to transliterate old Indic languages such as
> Sanskrit and Pali.

Input method "rfc1345" may be a good choice.

    M-x set-input-method RET rfc1345 RET

Key chords start with &, for example &a- makes ā. See

    M-x describe-input-method RET rfc1345 RET
    
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-19 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-19 13:30 Inputting characters with specialist diacritic marks in emacs mikew2801
2016-01-19 15:00 ` Haines Brown
2016-01-19 15:25 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-19 15:26 ` patrick mc allister
2016-01-19 15:35   ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-19 16:03 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2016-01-19 16:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-19 19:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-19 20:49   ` Nick Dokos
2016-01-19 20:58     ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-19 21:05     ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-19 22:46       ` Robert Thorpe
2016-01-20  8:25 ` mikew2801
2016-01-21  0:43   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-21 20:31 ` Sven Bretfeld
     [not found] ` <mailman.2611.1453232746.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-22  0:49   ` B. T. Raven
2016-01-22  1:24     ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-22  1:27     ` Joost Kremers
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2729.1453425895.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-22  1:31       ` Joost Kremers
2016-01-22  2:30         ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-27  8:52 ` Alan

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