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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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