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Re: Dead circumflex?


From: Merciadri Luca
Subject: Re: Dead circumflex?
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 02:25:07 -0700 (PDT)
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On 3 août, 09:46, Merciadri Luca <Luca.Mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be>
wrote:
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> "B. T. Raven" <ni...@nihilo.net> writes:
>
> > Hmm. Maybe scim modified something. Is there anything in your .emacs
> > that looks suspicious.
> Not really.
> > Have you discovered why C-x Ret C-\ does not
> > work?
> No.
> > Is this on Linux?
>
> Yes, both Debian and Ubuntu.> Is there an Xmodmap keyboard config around
> > anywhere?
> No.
> > If you chose latin-1-postfix, what does e^ produce other
> > than the non existent deadkey warning.
>
> I cannot choose latin1-postfix. Note that I have two computers:
> - - On the laptop, running Ubuntu, the circumflex is well placed under
> all the other applications. The only app where it does not work is
> Emacs.
> - - On the other, running Debian, the circumflex is always put near the
> letter, but never at its top, as I want it to be.
>
> On both computers, Emacs treats it as <dead-circumflex> being
> undefined.
>
> > I assume that the caret key on
> > keyboard matches where it should be on the Fr layout.  If you can get
> > anything in by hook or crook, does C-x = show something like this,
> > mutatis mutandis:  
>
> > Char: ê (2282, #o4352, #x8ea, file ...) point=2 of 5152 (0%) column=0
> > Char: ^ (94, #o136, #x5e) point=2 of 5154 (0%) column=0
>
> It shows info for all the characters, but as I cannot type the
> circumflex in Emacs, I can't figure out which message it could display
> for it.
>
>
>
> > This is on ver 22.3
>
> > If I install a Fr keyboard on w32 (2000) and with input method
> > latin-1-postfix, because of the French keyboard, input works
> > backwards, i.e press caret (to right of p) and then e, produces
> > circumflex e but it is still reported as:
>
> > Char: ê (2282, #o4352, #x8ea, file ...)
>
> Lucky you. Ok.
>
>
>
> > Same behavior with dieresis or umlaut: dead key invisible until next
> > key pressed. In fact I can find no backslash on the French keyboard at
> > all.
>
> I have the same problem with dieresis or umlaut. It then shows,
> e.g. for dieresis: <S-dead-dieresis> not defined.
>
>
>
> > Another possibility is to set the keyboard to English via the OS and
> > then chose one of the French input methods via Mule. That way you
> > would at least have a backslash. Most if not all vowels with
> > diacritics are on the number keys.
>
> I tried it. The situation keeps being the same. Note that, as I said
> above, I can type a backlash, and other strange characters, but
> dieresis and circumflex accent do not work.
>
> - --
> Merciadri Luca
> Seehttp://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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