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Re: Trouble typing extended characters with emacsclient


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: Trouble typing extended characters with emacsclient
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:43:07 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)

Steve Revilak <steve@srevilak.net> writes:

> I'm hoping that one of you could help me with an emacsclient problem.
>
> When I start emacs as "emacs -Q -nw", I can use the Compose key to
> type extended characters.  For example the key sequence
>
>   <Compose> " u
>
> produces the character "ü".
>
> I cannot get the same behavior with emacsclient. Specifically, if I
> start emacs in daemon mode
>
>   emacs -Q --daemon
>
> and use "emacsclient myfile.txt", then typing the <Compose> sequence
> above gives "C<" (two characters), rather than ü.
>
> How does one type extended characters with emacsclient?
>
> I've observed the same behavior with emacs 23.2 and 23.2.91.  I'm
> using OpenSUSE 11.3 with KDE 4.4.4.


What about iso-transl?  

(require 'iso-transl)
C-x 8 " u  --> ü

Also, check the encoding codes on the left of the mode line.  Do they
indicate iso or utf-8, or do they indicate an ASCII display?

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__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
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