Re: Debian emacs21: can't bind umlaut keys

2007-07-11 Thread Miles Bader
Peter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Not really related to the problem, but why do you use unibyte mode? >> It is very much deprecated, you will not be able to edit or view utf-8 >> encoded text. > > Fortunately, I don't usually need UTF-8 (Even in multibyte mode and with > a suitable font, I

Re: Debian emacs21: can't bind umlaut keys

2007-07-11 Thread Sven Joachim
Peter Daum writes: > Fortunately, I don't usually need UTF-8 (Even in multibyte mode and with > a suitable font, I never managed persuading emacs to correctly display > an utf-8-encoded file) Unless you live on an island, sooner or later you will retrieve UTF-8 encoded files, as this is standard i

Re: Debian emacs21: can't bind umlaut keys

2007-07-09 Thread Sven Joachim
Peter Daum writes: > Now after migrating my systems from Suse to Debian (Etch), my key > bindings don't work anymore and I can't figure out, what changed. > > Here a minimal code snippet to illustrate the problem: > > (defun latin1-to-emacs-char (char-code) > (make-char 'latin-iso8859-1 (- char

Debian emacs21: can't bind umlaut keys

2007-07-08 Thread Peter Daum
Hi, I am using a German keyboard, but usually write languages like "Perl" at least as often as "German" and with the standard German keyboard layout chars like "[]{}" are difficult to reach. Therefore, I had already long time ago written some ELisp code to switch the binding of the umlaut keys b