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Re: Input of ISO-8859-1 chars


From: Reiner Steib
Subject: Re: Input of ISO-8859-1 chars
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:43:40 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux)

On Fri, Dec 15 2006, Juanma Barranquero wrote:

> On 12/15/06, Rud1ger Sch1erz <nospam_tigre@yahoo.es> wrote:
[...]
>> With iso-accents-mode enabled, I could just type `"a' and it was
>> substituted with `ä' on the fly. That was very convenient, using a
>> keyboard with English layout to input German characters.
>
> Try adding
>
> (set-input-method 'latin-postfix)
>
> to you .emacs. You can try also with 'german-alt-postfix,
> 'german-postfix, etc.  "M-x list-input-methods lists" them all. C-\
> toggles the current input method on and off.

As he's used to type `"a' for `ä', the *-prefix methods
(e.g. latin-prefix or german-prefix) seem to be more suitable.

Bye, Reiner.
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