Re: File name completion in mini-buffer cannot expand Cé

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 21.03.2006 um 15:45 schrieb Stefan Monnier:

> > In Mac OS X file names are saved as de-composed UTF-8, the name   
> > Cécile
> > becomes Ce¨cile. The *Completions* buffer indeed shows   
> > "Ce<box>cile",
> > and the "box" itself is:
>
> From Emacs's point of view (which currently doesn't include any  
> unicode
> canonicalization or other equivalence between different unicode
> representations of "the same" text), the file name is not "Cécile" but
> "Ce¨cile".

OK, accepted. Typing Ce TAB indeed completes! (And now at daylight I  
see my fault with ¨ instead of ´!)

Then there seems to be some need to type these accents more easily.  
The COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT is described in GNU Emacs 22.0.50 as

  character:  (332481, #o1211301, #x512c1, U+0301)

so it obviously needs to by typed as C-q 0 1 2 1 1 3 0 1 ... a  
lengthy action! In GNU Emacs 23.0.0 it's

  character:  (769, #o1401, #x301)

and seems to be more easily typed. Besides there is the variable read- 
quoted-char-radix, when set to 16 it allows to input strange  
characters as C-q <its hex code as of U+0301>.

Or is there something better, faster, easier to remember? And where  
come these large numbers for a character in GNU Emacs 22.0.50 from ... ?

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  Pete

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