eric@cssoff.syssup.tds.philips.nl (Eric van Rheenen) (05/17/91)
Hello netters, I have a small problem with gnu emacs here. If I want to use emacs for our offices, I must be able to use accented characters like e-umlaut or c-cedila. When I used the quote key ( C-q ) together with the compose key sequence to generate the character, I see the character in octal value between two "<>", also constantly typing C-q for each accented character is not user friendly. What I'm looking for is a possibility to type the compose key sequence straight away and that emacs is using a table to find the sequence to send to the screen. The compose key sequence is generating a value that is above 127 and is ignored by emacs. For example: compose e " --> \353 (Octal value) With this, it must be possible to type "compose-e-" " and get the e-umlaut on the screen. This option can e.g. be selected by a switch. Typing compose-e-" in the shell will display the character properly. Since I'm new to Gnu Emacs and not a lisp programmer, I need your help. If someone has already made somthing like this to support multiple lanquages or if someone can tell me how to make this work, please let me know. The support of lanquages is very important, especially here in Europe. We have here seperate character sets for each country. I'm now running Gnu emacs version 18.56 on a Motorola m68030 machine Thanks in advange eric. -- Eric van Rheenen Philips Informatie Systemen Nederland B.V. Tel : +31 (0)55 - 43 3372 | UUCP : ...!mcsun!philapd!cssnl!eric Fax : +31 (0)55 - 43 3487 | Internet: eric@syssup.tds.philips.nl