Re: Dead circumflex?

[B. T. Raven]

Merciadri Luca wrote:
> On Aug 2, 11:35 am, Merciadri Luca <Luca.Mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be>
> wrote:
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> > Hello,
> > When typesetting French documents, I have to use ``^'' accents.
> > However, pressing ``^'' is not recognized by Gnus, as it says
> > ``<dead-circumflex> is undefined.'' It works through emacs, but not
> > with Gnus. Do I have to associate ``^'' with the circumflex accent,
> > i.e. in .emacs file? If so, how?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > - --
> > Merciadri Luca
> > Seehttp://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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> Read ``it does **not** work through emacs'' rather than ``it works
> through emacs'' please.


If you type C-x ret C-\ and then latin-1-postfix you will select an 
input method appropriate for the major western European languages. To 
get circumflexed vowels (â ê î ô û) type the vowel and then the caret. 
See minibuffer after typing vowel (or other character admitting 
diacritical).

Ed