In article <87ljwa6zjj.fsf@mat.ucm.es>, Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>     -  the symbol  $(D)M(B, which in latex is represented by \oe and occurs
>        in words like s$(D)M(Bur (sister) puzzles me very much:
>        First I can't find it neither in a french keyboard nor in
>        iso-accents-mode nor in quail (Xemacs 21.4/21.5 Mule) (GNU emacs
>        21/22).

With the input method "latin-postfix", you can type that
character by "o/2" (just "o/" is mapped to ,Ax(B).

>        However when using latex and using x-symbol, \oe gets displayed
>        as the relevant symbol, although in a sort of strange way:
>        My current main font is courier-bold: that symbol gets displayed
>        in something which looks like a fixfont of the sort of the family
>        mixed, but it is not, xfontsel does not show me this symbol.

Please type C-u C-x = on that character and show me the result.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp