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Latin Input Methods

Latin Accented

This input method is similar to the “latin-post” input method, available in Emacs. To get an accented letter, just type after a vowel one of the following accent keys (only accented characters present in the windows-1252 codepage are supported):

Key Accent
['] acute
[`] grave
[^] circumflex
[~] tilde
["] dieresis
[/] stroke

To get an unaccented vowel followed by a keyboard character which an accent key should produce on the standard English keyboard just hit the accent key twice. However, note, that the [`] and ['] keys always produce left and right single quotation marks (as in TeX) rather than ASCII grave and “neutral” single quote.

One specific feature of this input method is using the [=] key to replace a character or sequence of characters with another character which has similar look or meaning, but is not available from the standard US keyboard. Here the list of keystrokes which have special meaning in combination with [=]:

Before pressing [=] After pressig [=]   Before pressing [=] After pressing [=]  
AE Æ   Dh Ð  
Ae Æ   dh ð  
ae æ   OE Œ  
AO Å   Oe Œ  
Ao Å   oe œ  
ao å   ss ß  
C, Ç   TH Þ  
c, ç   Th Þ  
DH Ð   th þ  

Arabic Transliterated

This input method was contributed by Björn Bentlage, to whom all comments and suggestions should be directed. It provides all characters needed for the transliteration with latin letters of the arabic, persian and ottoman languages according to the rules of the DMG (Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft) and the Encyclopedia of Islam as well as some additional characters useful for the transliteration of arabic dialects. Also the contents of the modern turkish alphabet are included.

Characters by input key

Most special characters used in transliteration are derived from the basic Latin alphabet. To produce a special character, first type the regular letter it is based on, and then press one of the following functional keys (combinations not entirely obvious are added in brackets; descriptions are hints, not definitions):

Key Description Special character produced
[#] Number Sign: makes bars and lines Āā; Ḏḏ; Ēē; Ḫḫ; Īī; Ōō; S̠s̠; Ṯṯ; Ūū; Ẕẕ; ʿ(c+#); ʾ(x+#);
[+] Plus Sign: makes or deletes points Ạạ; Ḅḅ; Ḍḍ; Ẹẹ; Ġġ; Ḥḥ; Ii; Ḳḳ; Ḷḷ; Ṃṃ; Ṇṇ; Ọọ; Ṛṛ; Ṣṣ; Ṭṭ; Ụụ; Ẉẉ; Ẓẓ;
[<] Less Sign: makes carons Čč; Ǧǧ; Šš; Žž; «(<+<);
[>] Greater Sign Çç; Ğğ; Ññ; Şş; »(>+>);
[*] Asterisk Əə (A/a + *); ˁ=(c + *); D̠̣d̠̣; Ịị; ˀ (x + *); ع (C + *); Ŋŋ; Żż;
[`] or [$] Grave Accent or Dollar Sign Ćć; Ďď; Ŕŕ; Ťť;
["] Quotation Marks Üü; Öö;
[~] Tilde Ãã; Ññ; Õõ;

Note that most characters, listed in the table above, belong to the Latin Extended Additional Unicode range (U+1E00 —U+1EFF), which is not supported by most Unicode fonts. So you should select an appropriate font (such as Gentium, Cardo or Junicode) before attempting to use this input method. Moreover, two accented characters are not available in Unicode by itself, although they can be represented as a combination of a base letter and combining diacritics. So the following keystrokes actually produce such combinations rather than precomposed characters:

Keystroke Character
[S][#], [s][#] S̠s̠ (CAPITAL AND SMALL LETTER S WITH LINE BELOW)
[D][#], [d][#] D̠̣d̠̣ (CAPITAL AND SMALL LETTER D WITH LINE AND DOT BELOW)

The use of quotation marks as an input key might not seem practical at first. However, typing the quotation mark twice will produce a regular letter followed by a quotation mark: [u] + ["] = [ü] but [u] + ["] + ["] = [u"].

Characters by arabic alphabet

To make things easier, here is a chart giving the characters used in transliteration arranged according to the arabic alphabet:

Arabic أ ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ك ل م ن و ه ي fatha kasra damma
DMG ʾ Āā Bb Tt Ṯṯ Ǧǧ Ḥḥ Ḫḫ Dd Dd Rr Zz Ss Šš Ṣṣ Ḍḍ Ṭṭ Ẓẓ ʿ Ġġ Ff Qq Kk Ll Mm Nn ŪūWw Hh ĪīYy Aa Ii Uu
Alternative (EI) ˀ       th j kh   dh       sh         ع ˁ gh   Ḳḳ                    
Velarized or retroflexed     Ḅḅ Ťť           D̠̣d̠̣ ṚṛŔŕ                         Ḷḷ Ṃṃ Ṇṇ Ẉẉ     Ạạ Ịị Ụụ

And these are the other characters included:

Additinal characters Əə Ḅḅ Ćć Çç Čč Ďď D̠̣d̠̣ Ēē Ẹẹ Ğğ Ịị İı Ḷḷ Ṃṃ ṆṇÑñŊŋ Ōō Ọọ Ṛṛ Ŕŕ Şş S̠s̠ Ťť Ụụ Ẉẉ Ẕẕ Żż Žž

X-Skribo por Esperanto

This input method was contributed by Aleksej Korgenkov and allows to type Esperanto using digraphs with [x] for accented letters. Below you can see the list of such combinations which have a special meaning:

Keystroke Character Keystroke Character Keystroke Character
CX Ĉ Cx Ĉ cx ĉ
GX Ĝ Gx Ĝ gx ĝ
HX Ĥ Hx Ĥ hx ĥ
JX Ĵ Jx Ĵ jx ĵ
SX Ŝ Sx Ŝ sx ŝ
UX Ŭ Ux Ŭ ux ŭ
VX Ŭ Vx Ŭ vx ŭ

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