Re: Inserting special characters..

[Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>]

Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> writes:

> > Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> writes:
> > 
> > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 05:18:23AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> > > > Here is what the minibuffer displays as I type in the keys to produce
> > > > an e grave:
> > > > 
> > > >    C-x-
> > > >    C-x 8-
> > > >    C-x 8 `-
> > > 
> > > Try
> > > 
> > > C-x 8 ` e
> > 
> > That is what he (and I) typed, but he is showing what the minibuffer
> > displays.  It does produce the e-grave, but it seems to be stuck in
> > the minibuffer.  I am using emacs21 version 21.1-1 from stable, so
> > possibly you are using a different version?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org
> 
> My head's beginning to spin ;-|. "He" has the problem of the e-grave
> that does not appear at the point but stays in the minibuffer. I'm not
> clear if _you_ experience the same problem, or merely passing on what
> "he" says. In any case, I have the same problem as "he" does. That is,
> if I _type_ C-x 8 ` e, the e-grave shows up in the minibuffer followed
> by a dash signifying need for more input), but not at the point. I run
> emacs 21.1-1 as well, but under RH [sorry]. That is, when I type the
> letter, the sequence is not recognized as being complete. 

I was just responding to Paul that I have exactly the same problem as
you, since it appeared that Paul misunderstood your post.  It also
appears that Paul is using a different version than I am (which is
21.2-1, not what I reported earlier), so it may be a bug in only some
versions.

Of course it also may be only a unicode problem, since that
seems to have many bugs in this version.  I just looked at the source
file (iso-transl.el), and it states that it (the C-x 8 char map) is
for iso-8859-1, so it may not work for other environments.

-- 
Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org