Re: How to input opening quote (inverted single quote)?

[David Hansen]

On 5 Sep 2006 18:42:42 -0700 Ryo wrote:

> I'd like to compose email messages containing some Hawaiian
> words, some of which require inverted single quatation marks
> to indicate glottal stops, such as "Hawai`i".  Other special
> characters such as "a" ("a" with a macron or bar on its top)
> can be input in the latin-4-postfix mode of emacs.  (I looked
> at Latin-1, -2, -3, and -4 coding set, but I don't think
> there's an inverted quotation mark included in them.)

Have a look at input methods.  E.g:

C-\ TeX RET

Now you can type fancy chars like in TeX:

    \lq → ‘
    \rq → ’
    \"' → “
    \=a → ā

and so on.  Hit TAB after the '\' to see a complete list.
Note that there may be a better input method for Hawaiian
characters (try M-x describe-input-method).

David