Re: umlaut problem

[Christian Hofer]

Cor Gest wrote:
> You could put in .emacs:
>
> ;(setq default-input-method "latin-1-prefix")
>
> or in custom-set-variables '((setq default-input-method "latin-1-prefix")
> then in text-mode CTRL-\  starts the input method and you will have
> umlauts.

Thank you for your answer. While my problem has disappeared today with 
starting the next Emacs session, I would still be glad to find out, what 
the problem was (it is always good to know, how the internals work).

I suppose, I could not make it clear, what my problem is (sorry, my 
English is not the best). I read in the info what the input-method is, 
and it does not concern my problem. I have a german keyboard with 
umlauts, so I suppose I do not need an input method.

(Sidenote:
On the other hand, the default-input-method variable is set to 
"german-postfix" (as standard, without setting it in .emacs). But when I 
try to switch to this input method, I just get the error:
activate-input-method: Can't activate input method `german-postfix'
Not very helpful...)

My problem seems to have been some sort of display problem. Maybe it was 
the wrong fontset? While the saved file contained all the umlauts I 
typed (so it does not seem to be an encoding problem), in the Emacs 
buffer they have been displayed as {"a}.

As I said, I did not find any information about that in the info.

Chris