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

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