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Re: Special characters on Emacs/Mac?
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Re: Special characters on Emacs/Mac? |
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Mon, 07 Mar 2005 01:55:15 -0500 |
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Ulrich Hobelmann wrote:
> I just can't stop it...
>
> I guess the default encoding of Emacs is ISO-Latin-1, at least that's
> what I want to use anyway.
>
> How can I input accented characters / German Umlauts, etc.?
>
> Actually I think the problem is not the input, but the font: how do I
> change my
> (set-face-font 'default "-apple-Bitstream Vera Sans
> Mono-regular-r-normal--13-140-75-75-m-120-mac-roman")
> to use ISO-Latin-1 encoding instead of mac-roman? The documentation
> didn't really help me there... (and my tries were worthless)
I don't know if the font makes a difference, but have you tried M-x
iso-accents-mode?
Here are most of them:
A " and a vowel produce ö.
A ` and a vowel produce à.
A 'and a vowel produce á.
A tilde gives you ñ, ç, ¡, ¿
A ^ and a vowel gives you ô.
--Rod
Author of "Linux for Non-Geeks--Clear-eyed Answers for Practical Consumers"
and "Boring Stories from Uncle Rod." Both are available at
http://www.rodwriterpublishing.com/index.html.
To reply take the extra "o" out of the name.