svlug-entering_international_characters_under_linux_emacs_iso-accents-mode

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From: bill@wards.net (William R Ward)
Subject: Re: [svlug] ISO-8859-1 input (was: Linux for my mom?)
Cc: svlug@lists.svlug.org
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 17:36:01 -0800
To: David Hummel <ddhummel@pacbell.net>
Message: 4

David Hummel writes:
>On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 08:29:48AM PST, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:40:04AM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>> >
>> > I have been running RH9 and it's pretty nice.
>>
>> With that UTF-8 crammed down your throat crap, you cannot input single
>> byte ISO-8859-1 accents anymore.
>
>How does one input ISO-8859-1 characters (or any non-ASCII characters
>for that matter)?  I suppose it depends on the shell or editor one is
>using, but what tools/editors/environments are people using to
>accomplish this?

Emacs's iso-accents-mode works for me.

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