Re: accented letters ( typing in )

[Michel Chassey]

Thanks for all your suggestions. To help clarify my set-up, I'm running
emacs from the GUI and have enjoyed it since ubuntu 9 first installed it.
Running emacs from the ctrl + meta + F1 terminal produces weird chars when
I try accented chars.
I'm still a noob when setting up environment variables . Ubuntu keyboard
system have not changed but maybe as one poster suggests it is a bug. The
only thing that works right now is the CTRL + 8 compose method. I have
tried changing input methods but no cigar .

One question an OP has asked is how the apostrophe works and it gets typed
in the first time. Another poster suggested a newer version of emacs and I
will try that.

Hope you can help on this
Michel Chassey



2014/1/17 Bob Proulx [via Emacs] <ml-node+s1067599n310696h73@n5.nabble.com>

> Michel Chassey wrote:
> > Emacs displays all accented letters flawlessly from my files but I
> cannot
> > type in these accented letters.
> > é can by typed in but none the others like è ê à â . I can type these
> > letters anywhere ( as you can see ) but not in emacs.
> > My OS is Ubuntu 13.10 ( just upgraded )
>
> Are you running Emacs in X11 or from a terminal?  If you can type in
> those characters anywhere then it should work within emacs too.  It
> makes no sense to me.  Therefore I am going to ignore that and simply
> give generic keyboard configuration advice as if I had not read it.
> Perhaps some of it might even be useful.
>
> You can use C-x 8 in Emacs as the compose key for most common
> sequences.  For example C-x 8 ` e for è and so forth.  See the emacs
> "22.18 Unibyte Editing Mode" section of the manual.  That can be used
> even on keyboards that are not configured for the compose key.  (Such
> as if logged in remotely from a foreign keyboard.)  However not all
> compose key sequences are available within emacs.  Only the compose
> key sequences for the latin1 character set.  Use C-x 8 C-h to list out
> a full list of C-x 8 translations available.
>
> But that only works within emacs.  Therefore I think you will be
> better off if you configure your system to input those characters at
> the system level.  Then it will work correctly everywhere.  So instead
> of learning an emacs specific way I would set up a global system way.
>
> On Debian (and I assume on Ubuntu which is a fork) you can configure
> your keyboard to create a compose key.
>
>   sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
>
> That asks what to set up for AltGr and Compose.  I select Right Alt
> for AltGR and Menu for Compose.  (I also select the X terminate key of
> control-alt-backspace.)  That resulted in this configuration in the
> /etc/default/keyboard file.
>
>   XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:menu,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
>
> That will take effect the next time X is started.  But you can
> dynamically change the running session by calling the setxkbmap
> command to set it for the running session.
>
>   setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -option compose:menu -option
> terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
>
> Select the layout appropriate to your system.  The above is for my US
> keyboard.  That sets up the Compose key.  (As well as the X terminate
> key.  You might not want that.  The key sequence kills the current X
> session and logs you out immediately.)  At that point you should be
> able to use the right menu key as the compose key.
>
> The choice of Right Alt or Right Control might be most general as all
> PC keyboards have those keys.  My laptop does not have a right logo
> key.  It does have a menu key.  Other keyboards have a Right Logo key.
> People must simply pick one of the several possibilities and there is
> no single right answer.  Here are some possible selections that you
> might select one of them and try.
>
>   setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -option compose:rctrl
>   setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -option compose:menu
>   setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -option compose:rwin
>
> To activate an AltGr key (another way to create special characters)
> use the -variant altgr-intl option.  Here is another example.
>
>   setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -variant altgr-intl -option
> compose:rctrl -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
>
> With that you get both the Compose key and the AltGr key.  Both work.
> You can either build the characters with Compose ' e for é or can use
> the AltGr e for é.  Personally I prefer the compose key method over
> the AltGr method.  It works better with my brain.  Select the one you
> prefer.
>
> This following file documents the compose key sequences.  Browse that
> file to determine what sequence you need for the characters you will
> be typing in.
>
>   /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
>
> That lists many useful combinations.  Searching for a desired
> character cut and pasted into search yields the input keys needed to
> produce it.  Very useful.
>
> Here are some common compose key sequences.  Type the keys one after
> the other.  Tap, tap, tap.  Do not hold down the compose key as it is
> not a shift key and not a control key.  Here are just a few of the
> possibilities.
>
>   â = Compose ^ a
>   Å = Compose o A
>   è = Compose ` e
>   ü = Compose " u
>
> Since you are using Ubuntu and the system input method is system
> specific you might want to ask this question on the ubuntu-user
> mailing list.  Or if you decide something is a bug you might want to
> submit a bug into the Ubuntu bug tracker.  Because other system will
> configure this in their own unique ways.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Bob
>
>
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