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Re: How to input opening quote (inverted single quote)?
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David Hansen |
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Re: How to input opening quote (inverted single quote)? |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:15:07 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On 5 Sep 2006 18:42:42 -0700 Ryo wrote:
> I'd like to compose email messages containing some Hawaiian
> words, some of which require inverted single quatation marks
> to indicate glottal stops, such as "Hawai`i". Other special
> characters such as "a" ("a" with a macron or bar on its top)
> can be input in the latin-4-postfix mode of emacs. (I looked
> at Latin-1, -2, -3, and -4 coding set, but I don't think
> there's an inverted quotation mark included in them.)
Have a look at input methods. E.g:
C-\ TeX RET
Now you can type fancy chars like in TeX:
\lq → ‘
\rq → ’
\"' → “
\=a → ā
and so on. Hit TAB after the '\' to see a complete list.
Note that there may be a better input method for Hawaiian
characters (try M-x describe-input-method).
David