Re: Dead circumflex?

[B. T. Raven]

Merciadri Luca wrote:
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> "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> writes:
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> I finally desinstalled SCIM, and the problem is still the same. I do
> not know what I could still do to make it work. Furthermore, on my
> other PC, which is not a laptop, and which has not SCIM installed, the
> problem is the same.
> With my laptop, emacs is the only application where I cannot use
> circumflex accent. 
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> Merciadri Luca

Hmm. Maybe scim modified something. Is there anything in your .emacs 
that looks suspicious. Have you discovered why C-x Ret C-\ does not 
work? Is this on Linux? Is there an Xmodmap keyboard config around 
anywhere? If you chose latin-1-postfix, what does e^ produce other than 
the non existent deadkey warning. I assume that the caret key on 
keyboard matches where it should be on the Fr layout.  If you can get 
anything in by hook or crook, does C-x = show something like this, 
mutatis mutandis:

Char: ê (2282, #o4352, #x8ea, file ...) point=2 of 5152 (0%) column=0
Char: ^ (94, #o136, #x5e) point=2 of 5154 (0%) column=0

This is on ver 22.3

If I install a Fr keyboard on w32 (2000) and with input method 
latin-1-postfix, because of the French keyboard, input works backwards, 
i.e press caret (to right of p) and then e, produces circumflex e but it 
is still reported as:

Char: ê (2282, #o4352, #x8ea, file ...)

Same behavior with dieresis or umlaut: dead key invisible until next key 
pressed. In fact I can find no backslash on the French keyboard at all.

Another possibility is to set the keyboard to English via the OS and 
then chose one of the French input methods via Mule. That way you would 
at least have a backslash. Most if not all vowels with diacritics are on 
the number keys.