Re: Problem with <dead-acute>

[Adolfo De Unanue]

Thanks!

So it is a feature (!?)...ok then...

Very enlightening!

Adolfo



El Sun, 10 May 2009 11:57:24 +0200
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> escribió:

> 
> Am 10.05.2009 um 09:09 schrieb Adolfo De Unanue:
> 
> > finally someone advice put (require 'iso-transl) in the .emacs and  
> > that worked!
> 
> This also works for me, in Mac OS X.
> 
> >
> > But I have doubts about this... Whats happening?
> 
> A change ...
> 
> > Someone else has this problem?
> 
> Yes, definitely.
> 
> > Is this a problem of Ubuntu?
> 
> 
> No, it looks to be general. Maybe it's explained somewhere in the  
> documentation ...
> 
> 
> It seems that nothing is loaded automatically because there is a  
> choice betwee iso-transl and iso-acc. Both seem to provide an input  
> method with C-x 8 or Alt-<accent> prefix, but what you and I are  
> doing is just pressing a dead key (^, ´, `, ~, ¨) for the accent and  
> then another key to "compose" the accented character. And there is
> no Alt key used in this! And according to documentation it seems be  
> appropriate for 8-bit encodings, so it should be pretty useless in  
> UTF-8. I reported this bug when it was introduced, but the bug seems  
> to be classified as a feature ... Maybe it's just because the file
> is auto-loaded though pretty useless.
> 
> --
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