German characters

[drain]

Spanish.el handles Spanish characters well (F2 / F3 changes characters before
point to / from alternate forms), but I couldn't find anything for German.

In Windows I had to change keyboard layout in the OS, but I'd like an
integrated solution, along the lines of Spanish.el.

I tried going into Mule --> Set Language Environment, but German is not
listed.



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[drain]

Well, it only took a few substitutions to turn spanish.el into a german.el.

But I'd still be interested to know other methods.



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[Tassilo Horn]

drain <aeu...@gmail.com> writes:

> Well, it only took a few substitutions to turn spanish.el into a
> german.el.
>
> But I'd still be interested to know other methods.

I guess, the standard way of writing letters of other languages is to
use input methods.

,----[ C-h k C-x RET C-\ ]
| C-x RET C-\ runs the command set-input-method, which is an interactive compiled
| Lisp function in `mule-cmds.el'.
|
| It is bound to C-x RET C-\, <menu-bar> <options> <mule> <set-input-method>.
|
| (set-input-method INPUT-METHOD &optional INTERACTIVE)
|
| Select and activate input method INPUT-METHOD for the current buffer.
| This also sets the default input method to the one you specify.
| If INPUT-METHOD is nil, this function turns off the input method, and
| also causes you to be prompted for a name of an input method the next
| time you invoke C-\.
| When called interactively, the optional arg INTERACTIVE is non-nil,
| which marks the variable `default-input-method' as set for Custom buffers.
|
| To deactivate the input method interactively, use C-\.
| To deactivate it programmatically, use `deactivate-input-method'.
`----

And for German, you'd use one of those three:

,----[ C-h I german-prefix RET ]
| Input method: german-prefix (mode line indicator:DE>)
|
| German (Deutsch) input method with prefix modifiers
| Key translation rules are:
| "A -> Ä -> "O -> Ö "U -> Ü "s -> ß
|
|
| KEY SEQUENCE
| ------------
| You can input characters by the following key sequences:
| key char [type a key sequence to insert the corresponding character]
| --- ---- --- ---- --- ---- --- ---- --- ---- --- ---- --- ----
| "A Ä "O Ö "U Ü "a ä "o ö "s ß "u ü
`----

,----[ C-h I german-postfix RET ]
| Input method: german-postfix (mode line indicator:DE<)
|
| German (Deutsch) input method
|
| ae -> ä
| aee -> ae
| oe -> ö
| oee -> oe
| ue -> ü (not after a/e/q)
| uee -> ue
| sz -> ß
| szz -> sz
|
|
| KEY SEQUENCE
| ------------
| You can input characters by the following key sequences:
| key char [type a key sequence to insert the corresponding character]
| --- ---- --- ---- --- ---- --- ---- --- ---- --- ---- --- ----
| AE Ä OE Ö UE Ü ae ä oe ö sz ß ue ü
`----

,----[ C-h I german RET ]
| Input method: german (mode line indicator:DE@)
|
| German (Deutsch) input method simulating SUN German keyboard
|
|
| KEYBOARD LAYOUT
| ---------------
| This input method works by translating individual input characters.
| Assuming that your actual keyboard has the `standard' layout,
| translation results in the following "virtual" keyboard layout:
|
| +----------------------------------------------------------------+
| | 1 ! | 2 " | 3 § | 4 $ | 5 % | 6 & | 7 / | 8 ( | 9 ) | 0 = | ß ? | [ { | ] } |
| +----------------------------------------------------------------+
| | q Q | w W | e E | r R | t T | z Z | u U | i I | o O | p P | ü Ü | + * |
| +------------------------------------------------------------+
| | a A | s S | d D | f F | g G | h H | j J | k K | l L | ö Ö | ä Ä | # ^ |
| +-----------------------------------------------------------+
| | y Y | x X | c C | v V | b B | n N | m M | , ; | . : | - _ |
| +-------------------------------------------------+
| +-----------------------------+
| | space bar |
| +-----------------------------+
|
| If your keyboard has a different layout, rearranged from
| `standard', the "virtual" keyboard you get with this input method
| will be rearranged in the same way.
|
| You can set the variable `quail-keyboard-layout-type' to specify
| the physical layout of your keyboard; the tables shown in
| documentation of input methods including this one are based on the
| physical keyboard layout as specified with that variable.
`----

HTH,
Tassilo

[Doug Lewan]

I found this on emacs 24.1 off the menu bar
Options-->Multilingual Environment-->Set Language Environment-->European-->German
That's much more than I like to use the mouse, but you only have to do it once.

I also found German as a possibility for M-x set-language-environment.

I hope this helps.

,Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shuberttic...@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shuberttic...@gnu.org] On
> Behalf Of drain
> Sent: Sunday, 2012 August 12 16:58
> To: Help-gn...@gnu.org
> Subject: German characters
>
> Spanish.el handles Spanish characters well (F2 / F3 changes characters
> before
> point to / from alternate forms), but I couldn't find anything for
> German.
>
> In Windows I had to change keyboard layout in the OS, but I'd like an
> integrated solution, along the lines of Spanish.el.
>
> I tried going into Mule --> Set Language Environment, but German is not
> listed.
>
>
>

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[drain]

Thanks, good to know. It's nice to have Emacs automatically change double
vowels to umlauts, but it's still easier to use a custom mode.

I mapped C-s-x to language-minor-mode, C-s-g to toggling German chars, and
C-s-s to toggling Spanish chars. I place point right after, for example, o,
and can toggle it with ö by pressing C-s-g.





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