From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dead circumflex? Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:06:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ab2id0dl.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> <98ecfecc-d080-40fe-b1d1-ebcf67da6595@j21g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> <87k51m6lr8.fsf@student.ulg.ac.be> <87tz0pudn6.fsf@student.ulg.ac.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249256502 32603 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2009 23:41:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 23:41:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 03 01:41:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MXkgJ-0000a4-CP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:41:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47279 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXkgI-00011A-Rc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:41:34 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!backlog2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:06:27 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87tz0pudn6.fsf@student.ulg.ac.be> Original-Lines: 45 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.132.245 Original-X-Trace: sv3-9K29gMXBcYlN5brNAvag0yg/0qSmwTa1uSiCpqc3t64N8Bb06t+3ZVKKVOWT24KnWhLdeP5A+1m1gDD!v138PuDl3dt1+mVjugXj0BzRkB0GgpWwQbeJWGsHg8FyC9eV7IebHE/9ajr/qsv3lPKdmEN9ymO6!75v9if7L8cuvbsDa3SJO5zxFy4lnbJo= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 X-Original-Bytes: 3254 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171507 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66685 Archived-At: Merciadri Luca wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > "B. T. Raven" writes: > > I finally desinstalled SCIM, and the problem is still the same. I do > not know what I could still do to make it work. Furthermore, on my > other PC, which is not a laptop, and which has not SCIM installed, the > problem is the same. > With my laptop, emacs is the only application where I cannot use > circumflex accent. > > - -- > Merciadri Luca Hmm. Maybe scim modified something. Is there anything in your .emacs that looks suspicious. Have you discovered why C-x Ret C-\ does not work? Is this on Linux? Is there an Xmodmap keyboard config around anywhere? If you chose latin-1-postfix, what does e^ produce other than the non existent deadkey warning. I assume that the caret key on keyboard matches where it should be on the Fr layout. If you can get anything in by hook or crook, does C-x = show something like this, mutatis mutandis: Char: ê (2282, #o4352, #x8ea, file ...) point=2 of 5152 (0%) column=0 Char: ^ (94, #o136, #x5e) point=2 of 5154 (0%) column=0 This is on ver 22.3 If I install a Fr keyboard on w32 (2000) and with input method latin-1-postfix, because of the French keyboard, input works backwards, i.e press caret (to right of p) and then e, produces circumflex e but it is still reported as: Char: ê (2282, #o4352, #x8ea, file ...) Same behavior with dieresis or umlaut: dead key invisible until next key pressed. In fact I can find no backslash on the French keyboard at all. Another possibility is to set the keyboard to English via the OS and then chose one of the French input methods via Mule. That way you would at least have a backslash. Most if not all vowels with diacritics are on the number keys.