Re: Typing accented text.

[Sergei Organov]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com> wrote:
>>> Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com> writes:
>>>
>> OK, thanks, but as far as I can see this works with English, and not
>> with something else, like Russian? Then how do I type, e.g.:
>>
>> Вот 'очень кор'откий прим'ер
>>
>> in the same manner?
>
> There is no such thing as precomposed accented Cyrillic letters in
> Unicode (and those who fake it by using similarly shaped accented
> Latin letters are just jerks with no respect for proper semantic). One
> is supposed to insert a combining accent codepoint (U+0301) after the
> character to be accented.

That's what I actually meant, I believe.

> Now, your question boils down to "How do I enter a combining accent
> [in Emacs]?" I personally prefer using an XKB layout that has the
> combining accent somewhere on level 3, as it gives me consistent
> experience across my whole desktop environment. E.g. the +typo
> modification has it on Level3+AC01 (the key where latin A is usually
> located).
>
> You can also bind the following function to a key of your choice, but
> it will only work in Emacs:
>
> (defun insert-combining-acute (count)
>   (interactive "p")
>   (insert-char #x0301 count))

Thanks, that looks like what I've asked for!

-- Sergei.