Re: umlaut problem

[Cor Gest]

Some witty Entity named: Christian Hofer <ch_spam@gmx.de>
 has unintentionally writen somthing like:

> 
> (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}.

It could be due to the setting in MULE evironmemt

(emacs 21.3) from menu
Options > MULE > set Language Environmet > European > German

after setting and trying : Options > Save settings

this should put the MULE envvars in .emacs


(Or indeed a non dl characters  compatatible fontset)

HTH

Cor

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