Re: language settings

[Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle]

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:27:56 +0200
Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> wrote:

> Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle <ray@nabuli.de> writes:
> 
> [...]
> > I am running Debian Sarge on my Notebook (an old one, btw).  I
> > reinstalled Sarge a couple of days ago and since that I seem no
> > longer to be able to let emacs come up with the german Umlaute (I am
> > using a US keyboard).  Up to that reinstallation I just used Ctrl \
> > and mule behaved the (I think usual) way to show an "a" with two
> > dots above after pressing "a
> 
> Input methods are defined in a package called "leim" that up to Emacs
> version 21.3 come /not/ bundled with Emacs. You have to download and
> install it separetely. Probably you forgot that when you reinstalled
> your OS.
> 
> [I agree, btw., that `standard-display-european' is evil.]

Hi Oliver,

first, Debian seems not to hold a package called leim.  Second, and I
may have misread that, I found a webpage that said that leim is NOT
for emacs 21.3 but only for lower versions ... am I wrong with that?

ray