[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: umlaut problem
From: |
Christian Hofer |
Subject: |
Re: umlaut problem |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:36:39 -0000 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040525) |
Cor Gest wrote:
You could put in .emacs:
;(setq default-input-method "latin-1-prefix")
or in custom-set-variables '((setq default-input-method "latin-1-prefix")
then in text-mode CTRL-\ starts the input method and you will have
umlauts.
Thank you for your answer. While my problem has disappeared today with
starting the next Emacs session, I would still be glad to find out, what
the problem was (it is always good to know, how the internals work).
I suppose, I could not make it clear, what my problem is (sorry, my
English is not the best). I read in the info what the input-method is,
and it does not concern my problem. I have a german keyboard with
umlauts, so I suppose I do not need an input method.
(Sidenote:
On the other hand, the default-input-method variable is set to
"german-postfix" (as standard, without setting it in .emacs). But when I
try to switch to this input method, I just get the error:
activate-input-method: Can't activate input method `german-postfix'
Not very helpful...)
My problem seems to have been some sort of display problem. Maybe it was
the wrong fontset? While the saved file contained all the umlauts I
typed (so it does not seem to be an encoding problem), in the Emacs
buffer they have been displayed as {"a}.
As I said, I did not find any information about that in the info.
Chris