Staticfree Blog 05 11 2002

Staticfree Blog

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I have been asleep for 16 minutes, and 49 seconds. Before that, I was at home.

Tue, 05 Nov 2002

I've finally figured out how to type in japanese, hebrew, greek and a variety of other useful character sets using emacs. In emacs21, the "mule" system is remarkably powerful. Simply specify the input mode with A-x set-input-method. Pick one, then do A-x describe-input-method and it'll show you a nice mapping of the keys. This now means that I can write ひらがなとカタカナ right from within the editor :-) I can now also typeset that beautiful Hebrew phrase from the Bible (Song of Solomon 6:3)

אבי לדזדי זדזדי

In english "I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine."

And in attempting to post this blog entry, I found out the hard way that you need the mule-ucs system in order to make it so you can write those characters to a UTF-8 encoded file. Debian has a package for it suchly named.

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