Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac?

[Mark H. David]

It's similarly a bummer on GNU/Linux with a PC keyboard.

Straightforward way to try it:
  Add Hebrew language keyboard in your modern GUI in the GNU/Linux-y way.
  Fire up emacs, go to scratch buffer
  Switch keyboard to "he" (Hebrew keyboard)
  Type keys with caps: ASDF - 4 Hebrew letters show up: שדגכ
  Type ctrl+b, meaning backward-char. Doesn't work, you get: "C-נ is undefined".

נ is the Hebrew character you get when you type the keycap B.

I tried this on Emacs 24. I'm sure it's the same on Emacs 25 in this respect.

By the way, my keyboard switching key is assigned to Windows+Space [hold down 
"Windows" key while typing the space bar], so when I type Windows+Space, Emacs 
says "s-SPC is undefined".  The system correctly intercepts my typing 
Windows+Space and switches the keyboard, but something is wrong there: it 
should not even be seeing that key. Hopefully that's fixed upstream. I'll check 
another day.

Thanks,

Mark

----- Original message -----
From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
To: "Mark H. David" <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac?
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:54:55 -0500

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  > This relies heavily on using the Mac keyboard's option key, since
  > that's used for typing Hebrew character combinations, which
  > involves inserting Unicode characters from the Hebrew range as a
  > sequence of two characters: a base Hebrew character plus a
  > diacritic character, known as nikud, the combination of which I'm
  > calling here collectively "Hebrew with nikud".

What about when not using a Mac keyboard?  How good is our support
for this feature on ordinary PC keyboards with the GNU/Linux system?

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