This one is for the "unlikely bugs" section. If you use the magic combination of Emacs 22, a US keyboard and dead keys in a UTF-8 locale, the combination ' + c will give you ć instead of ç. Of course, this is a bug only if you want ç and not ć, so please forgive my ç-centrism. No offense intended to ć-using languages, whatever they may be. :)

GTK2 had this same bug about 5 years ago, and they solved it by creating the "cedilla" input method, and selecting it according to locale. Guess the Emacs guys will have to go the same route. Meanwhile, a simple workaround is to fire up Emacs in a ISO-8859-1 locale: "$ LC_ALL=pt_BR emacs" and as soon as the program opens up, select "Options|Mule|Set Language Environment|UTF-8". It isn't pretty, but as I use the US keyboard only rarely this works for me.

Posted at: 14:04 | Category: /software | permalink