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Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac?
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Mark H. David |
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Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac? |
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Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:02:30 -0800 |
It's similarly a bummer on GNU/Linux with a PC keyboard.
Straightforward way to try it:
Add Hebrew language keyboard in your modern GUI in the GNU/Linux-y way.
Fire up emacs, go to scratch buffer
Switch keyboard to "he" (Hebrew keyboard)
Type keys with caps: ASDF - 4 Hebrew letters show up: שדגכ
Type ctrl+b, meaning backward-char. Doesn't work, you get: "C-נ is undefined".
נ is the Hebrew character you get when you type the keycap B.
I tried this on Emacs 24. I'm sure it's the same on Emacs 25 in this respect.
By the way, my keyboard switching key is assigned to Windows+Space [hold down
"Windows" key while typing the space bar], so when I type Windows+Space, Emacs
says "s-SPC is undefined". The system correctly intercepts my typing
Windows+Space and switches the keyboard, but something is wrong there: it
should not even be seeing that key. Hopefully that's fixed upstream. I'll check
another day.
Thanks,
Mark
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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
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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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- Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac?, Mark H. David, 2016/12/06
- Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac?, David Caldwell, 2016/12/06
- Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac?, Richard Stallman, 2016/12/07
- Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac?,
Mark H. David <=
- Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/07
- Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac?, Mark H. David, 2016/12/12
- Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/12
- Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac?, Juri Linkov, 2016/12/13
- Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac?, Mark H. David, 2016/12/13
- Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac?, Juri Linkov, 2016/12/14
- Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac?, Richard Stallman, 2016/12/08