From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: accented letters ( typing in ) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:47:25 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87txd2jpxl.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389991811 29696 80.91.229.3 (17 Jan 2014 20:50:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:50:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 17 21:50:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W4GMt-000317-5F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:50:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4GMs-0007T9-R8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:50:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:EvbJwojTIT0dGJnakwmo6GSaxtw= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203194 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95463 Archived-At: Michel Chassey writes: > é can by typed in but none the others like è ê à â. > I can type these letters anywhere (as you can see) > but not in emacs. Input methods and the compose key are two solutions, but probably not optimal ones if you are accustomed to typing those letters in another way, and that way, they work everywhere else. How do you input those chars? Did you set that up or did it always work? Are you running a GUI Emacs? (The one that appears if you type 'emacs' in an X terminal.) What happens if you instead run with -nw (for '--no-window-system') - does it work, then? If it doesn't, do those chars work in the terminal itself (before you start Emacs)? What terminal do you use? Did you configure it? This sounds like a misconfiguration along the way (which happens, of course), or perhaps a mistake higher up. The post (on this list) that mentioned the locale is a good start. Learning (new) input methods or setting up and learning the compose key are general solutions to the problem of goofy chars but in your case I'd discourage and I don't think you should have to. -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573