Re: character display

[David Kastrup]

Jörg Hagmann <joerg.hagmann@unibas.ch> writes:

> I am using Emacs with Mac OS X 10.3 (The window kind, probably version
> 21.3) and a US keyboard. Sometimes I need French or German characters
> (aigu, grave, umlaut etc.). I managed to type these by C-x C-m C-\ 
> latin-1-prefix. But how can they be displayed? All I see is empty
> boxes. Innumerable combinations of what I found under "Options" didn't
> help.
> Are the fonts missing in my installation? Help would be
> appreciated. Joerg.

With regard to encoding stuff, MacOSX is not easy to get along with.
There has been recent progress made, so I recommend you try something
out like yaced <URL:http://yaced.sourceforge.net>, which is a
packaging of a developer version of Emacs with some additional
software included.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum