Re: Entering UTF-8 Characters

[David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net>]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:41:05 -0600 Cameron Desautels wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:14:51AM +0100, David Hansen wrote:
>> Part of GNU emacs:
>> 
>> M-x set-input-method RET TeX RET
>> 
>> \qlqq: ???
>> \grqq: ???
>> \"`:   ???
>> \"':   ???
>> \"<:   «
>> \">:   »
>> \lq:   ???
>> \rq:   ???
>
> Only \lq and \rq work for me--the others do not seem to be valid \TeX
> entities for me (i.e. TeX input method doesn't understand them, not
> simply that they don't display).
>
> I am running GNU emacs 21.4.1.  It is a mule-utf-8 buffer (little 'u'
> in the corner), and I know that it can display the characters properly
> (thanks to B. T. Raven's C-q 0 1 2 3 4 5 7 5 RET), but I cannot seem
> to input them in the fashion described.  Am I missing a step?

Probably my fault:  I'm running emacs from CVS.  You can try

M-x describe-input-method TeX RET

and scroll through all the chars.

Another alternative I used for quite some time may be

ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/emacs-modes/u8tex.el

It's very similar to the TeX input method but uses a '/' instead
of '\'.  Or maybe (never tried this)

http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.sources/msg/6f1779b22c7110ea

David