Re: Special characters on Emacs/Mac?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.03.2005 um 07:17 schrieb Ulrich Hobelmann:

> I guess the default encoding of Emacs is ISO-Latin-1, at least that's 
> what I want to use anyway.
>
> How can I input accented characters / German Umlauts, etc.?

The Carbon variant is Mac Roman. It accept the umlauts and other 8 bit 
characters from your keyboard.

You could try some of these:

        (setq process-connection-type t)
        (require 'site-fontsets-carbon)
        ;(setq mac-command-key-is-meta nil)
        (set-language-environment               'German)
        (setq file-name-coding-system           'utf-8)
        (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'mac-roman-unix)
        (set-default-coding-systems             'mac-roman-unix)
        (set-keyboard-coding-system             'mac-roman)
        (prefer-coding-system                   'mac-roman-unix)
        (global-set-key [kp-delete]             'delete-char)
          (set-default-coding-systems           'iso-latin-9-unix)
          (set-keyboard-coding-system           'iso-latin-9)
          (prefer-coding-system                 'iso-latin-9-unix)
          (setq mac-transparency-alpha 80)
          (setq initial-frame-alist '(
                (mouse-color      . "midnightblue")
                (foreground-color . "midnightblue")
                (background-color . "antiquewhite1")
                (font . "fontset-14pt_bitstream_courier")
                (top . 10) (left . 650) (width . 89) (height . 60)))
          (setq default-frame-alist '(
                (background-color . "ghost white")
                (foreground-color . "grey10")
                (vertical-scroll-bars . left)
                (font . "fontset-12pt_lucidasans_typewriter")
                (cursor-color . "purple")
                (cursor-type . box)
                (top . 20) (left . 150) (width . 89) (height . 56)))

and look into the archves of the Mac OS X Emacs list, around last 
Christmas I published there a list of fontsets for the Carbon and X11 
environments, but the latter one is probably a bit incorrect:

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