accent in emacs - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

annemar · #1 (**permalink**) 01-23-2006

Hello,
I try to insert charcheters with accent with emacs.
It doesn't work.
How can I do ?
Thank you in advance

#2 (**permalink**) 01-23-2006

Type this command in Emacs: M-x set-keyboard-coding-system
Choose the character set of your language, for example latin-1
To make this setting the default when you start Emacs, add this line to your .emacs file:
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'latin-1)

annemar · #3 (**permalink**) 01-23-2006

Thank you very much.

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