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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Mark H. David" <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:02:30 -0800
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> 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.

It's not an Emacs issue, it's how keyboard works on X.  (Ironically,
MS-Windows gets it right, so keys with Ctrl modifier are still ASCII
when I switch the keyboard to Hebrew.)

May I suggest to try one of the Emacs's own built-in Hebrew input
methods instead?