> > Maybe it would be possible to add umlauts and accented > > characters to the default? > > so that we get `�' in that list, too. (And all the other > dots/hats/accents/you-name-it too, of course.) It would be great > to see this added to the default list. There is of course a whole > lot of `funny characters', but it would be desirable to have them > in that list. > > > I don't know what would happen in unibyte mode with stuff like > > this, though. > > I hope someone can answer that...
I have been thinking about this for a little while. I think, it goes beyond BibTeX. Some time ago, I have written a little package umlaute.el, see http://www.tfkp.physik.uni-erlangen.de/~winkler/src/umlaute.el The idea is to have `translation tables' so that one can go back and forth between different `representations' of a character, depending on the emacs mode, for example (I live in southern Germany) text-mode: Gr�� Gott tex-mode: Gr\"u{\ss} Gott german latex-mode: Gr"u"s Gott html-mode: Grüß Gott other modes (7 bit): Gruess Gott BibTeX keys probably should use the 7-bit `representation'. For German umlaute the 7-bit `representation' is fairly well defined - even though I expect that some people would prefer a translation table that simply drops the double dots, but does not add the extra `e'. The best choice might depend on the context. However, I do not know how this could be done for other languages. Some spanish people use `Se�or' -> `Se~nor'. Certainly, this is not a good choice in the context of BibTeX keys. I do not know whether such a feature would be useful for other emacs packages, too, nor do I know how it could best be implemented. In the meanwhile it is probably best if people customize bibtex-autokey-name-change-strings. Roland _______________________________________________ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
