not sure of how to enter accented characters in emacs23 using spanish keyboard

not sure of how to enter accented characters in emacs23 using spanish keyboard

[Leo]

Hello,
I recently switched to emacs23 and I think it's great. I have had
problems however with my Spanish keyboard. Every time I need an
accented character (á), I get the character in the minibuffer, but not
in the text area. I have tried switching to spanish-* encodings but no
luck. Does any of you know what I'm doing wrong? BTW, my Emacs22, same
apparent configs, behaves as expected.
Thanks.

Re: not sure of how to enter accented characters in emacs23 using spanish keyboard

[B. T. Raven]

Leo wrote:
> Hello,
> I recently switched to emacs23 and I think it's great. I have had
> problems however with my Spanish keyboard. Every time I need an
> accented character (á), I get the character in the minibuffer, but not
> in the text area. I have tried switching to spanish-* encodings but no
> luck. Does any of you know what I'm doing wrong? BTW, my Emacs22, same
> apparent configs, behaves as expected.
> Thanks.

Don't know. Ver. 22 is not yet wholly based on utf-8 so it probably does 
things differently. You can get most European diacritics (including all 
Spanish ones) by using latin-1-postfix input method:

C-x ret C-\ latin-1-postfix

then a' produces á. Other combos are shown by

C-h I latin-1-postfix

hth

Re: not sure of how to enter accented characters in emacs23 using spanish keyboard

[Peter Dyballa]

>> I recently switched to emacs23 and I think it's great. I have had
>> problems however with my Spanish keyboard. Every time I need an
>> accented character (á), I get the character in the minibuffer, but  
>> not
>> in the text area. I have tried switching to spanish-* encodings  
>> but no
>> luck. Does any of you know what I'm doing wrong? BTW, my Emacs22,  
>> same
>> apparent configs, behaves as expected.

It's better you try to make your tests by launching GNU Emacs with -q  
or -Q. A lot of GNU Emacs 22 customisation deals with making it work  
with non-US-ASCII encodings. This has changed in GNU Emacs 23.

You can check what your keyboard emits by first pressing C-q and then  
the keyboard key. GNU Emacs seems to have problems with composing  
Latin characters. The dead keys you press make it report in echo  
area. This cures the problem:

	(load-library "iso-transl")

A good start is also to set an environment variable like LC_ALL (or  
LANG).

--
Greetings

   Pete

When Richard Stallman goes to the loo, he core dumps.

Re: not sure of how to enter accented characters in emacs23 using spanish keyboard

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 19.08.2009 um 18:26 schrieb Leo:

> I recently switched to emacs23 and I think it's great.

It's greater, I mean it becomes useful, with

	(load-library "iso-transl")

--
Greetings

   Pete

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stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and  
neither do we.
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