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changeset 61122:30ce20575d8b
(Single-Byte Character Support): Reinstall the C-x 8 info.
author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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date | Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:24:27 +0000 |
parents | ca079ae96939 |
children | 908c45c94868 |
files | man/mule.texi |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/mule.texi Tue Mar 29 23:17:30 2005 +0000 +++ b/man/mule.texi Tue Mar 29 23:24:27 2005 +0000 @@ -1376,6 +1376,27 @@ Meta to be converted to @kbd{ESC} and still be able type 8-bit characters present directly on the keyboard or using @kbd{Compose} or @kbd{AltGr} keys. @xref{User Input}. + +@kindex C-x 8 +@cindex @code{iso-transl} library +@cindex compose character +@cindex dead character +@item +For Latin-1 only, you can use the key @kbd{C-x 8} as a ``compose +character'' prefix for entry of non-@acronym{ASCII} Latin-1 printing +characters. @kbd{C-x 8} is good for insertion (in the minibuffer as +well as other buffers), for searching, and in any other context where +a key sequence is allowed. + +@kbd{C-x 8} works by loading the @code{iso-transl} library. Once that +library is loaded, the @key{ALT} modifier key, if the keyboard has +one, serves the same purpose as @kbd{C-x 8}: use @key{ALT} together +with an accent character to modify the following letter. In addition, +if the keyboard has keys for the Latin-1 ``dead accent characters,'' +they too are defined to compose with the following character, once +@code{iso-transl} is loaded. + +Use @kbd{C-x 8 C-h} to list all the available @kbd{C-x 8} translations. @end itemize @node Charsets