anglophone needs help from francophone

[Hugh Lawson]

French has some characters that when printed are jammed together in one
character. For example the noun 'oeuvre', which means 'work' or
'activity' is printed with the 'oe' put together in one character. In
French I believe these characters are called 'ligatures'.

What I want is to retain my basic US English setup, but to be able from
time to time to have these French characters print in the Franch
manner, on paper and on the screen.

Is this possible in emacs? I have already learned how to print the
accented characters (e.g., être, élève, etc.).

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Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, North Carolina
hla...@triad.rr.com

[Jacques L'helgoualc'h]

hla...@triad.rr.com (Hugh Lawson) a dit :

> French has some characters that when printed are jammed together in one
> character. For example the noun 'oeuvre', which means 'work' or
> 'activity' is printed with the 'oe' put together in one character. In
> French I believe these characters are called 'ligatures'.
>
> What I want is to retain my basic US English setup, but to be able from
> time to time to have these French characters print in the Franch
> manner, on paper and on the screen.
>
> Is this possible in emacs? I have already learned how to print the
> accented characters (e.g., être, élève, etc.).

The ligature \oe exists in TeX, but not in iso-8859-1.

From /usr/share/doc/kbd/iso8859-15.txt.gz:
=BC U+0152 LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
=BD U+0153 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE

so 8859-15 will be your friend...
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Jacques L'helgoualc'h