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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Mark H. David" <mhd@yv.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac?
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:54:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1cEjEt-0006MX-Kx@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1481056342.3486002.810530185.08361AFB@webmail.messagingengine.com> (mhd@yv.org)

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  > This relies heavily on using the Mac keyboard's option key, since
  > that's used for typing Hebrew character combinations, which
  > involves inserting Unicode characters from the Hebrew range as a
  > sequence of two characters: a base Hebrew character plus a
  > diacritic character, known as nikud, the combination of which I'm
  > calling here collectively "Hebrew with nikud".

What about when not using a Mac keyboard?  How good is our support
for this feature on ordinary PC keyboards with the GNU/Linux system?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-12-07 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-06 20:32 Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac? Mark H. David
2016-12-06 21:10 ` David Caldwell
2016-12-06 22:04   ` Mark H. David
2016-12-07 20:54 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-12-07 23:02   ` Mark H. David
2016-12-08  3:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-12 21:09       ` Mark H. David
2016-12-13  3:44         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-13 21:27         ` Juri Linkov
2016-12-13 23:41           ` Mark H. David
2016-12-14 22:05             ` Juri Linkov
2016-12-08 20:36     ` Richard Stallman

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