Re: not sure of how to enter accented characters in emacs23 using spanish keyboard

[B. T. Raven]

Leo wrote:
> Hello,
> I recently switched to emacs23 and I think it's great. I have had
> problems however with my Spanish keyboard. Every time I need an
> accented character (á), I get the character in the minibuffer, but not
> in the text area. I have tried switching to spanish-* encodings but no
> luck. Does any of you know what I'm doing wrong? BTW, my Emacs22, same
> apparent configs, behaves as expected.
> Thanks.

Don't know. Ver. 22 is not yet wholly based on utf-8 so it probably does 
things differently. You can get most European diacritics (including all 
Spanish ones) by using latin-1-postfix input method:

C-x ret C-\ latin-1-postfix

then a' produces á. Other combos are shown by

C-h I latin-1-postfix

hth