buisteric
October 26th, 2013, 04:03 PM
Hi,
I am writing French text documents using GNU Emacs and just after upgrade to Ubuntu 13.10, I am getting problems entering characters such as é, è, etc. No matter what keyboard layout I choose (Canadian French or US International), some characters require two keys to be pressed, e.g., ' and e for the é. Emacs seems to now ignore the first key and just displays the non-accented character. I can enter accents elsewhere, such as the terminal or a Chrome window. All other text editors under Ubuntu I tried just suck: no support for GNUPG, too small characters that cannot be enlarged, inconvenient search and replace not working without clicking multiple times at multiple places with the mouse, lack of UTF-8 support, etc.
Any search on Google now lead to irrelevant results. Searching about GNU Emacs gives a first hit about Octave and other hits are just helpless. It seems that Google just doesn't do the job anymore. Is there another search engine that replaced Google I am not aware of?
Thanks in advance for any help.
I am writing French text documents using GNU Emacs and just after upgrade to Ubuntu 13.10, I am getting problems entering characters such as é, è, etc. No matter what keyboard layout I choose (Canadian French or US International), some characters require two keys to be pressed, e.g., ' and e for the é. Emacs seems to now ignore the first key and just displays the non-accented character. I can enter accents elsewhere, such as the terminal or a Chrome window. All other text editors under Ubuntu I tried just suck: no support for GNUPG, too small characters that cannot be enlarged, inconvenient search and replace not working without clicking multiple times at multiple places with the mouse, lack of UTF-8 support, etc.
Any search on Google now lead to irrelevant results. Searching about GNU Emacs gives a first hit about Octave and other hits are just helpless. It seems that Google just doesn't do the job anymore. Is there another search engine that replaced Google I am not aware of?
Thanks in advance for any help.