[Buddha-l] Linux as a Buddhist practice

[Richard Hayes]

On Friday 25 July 2008 21:16, Warner Belanger wrote:

> For those of you using Linux distros, what do you use to input diacritics
> for Asian languages like Sanskrit?

I do almost all my work in the emacs editor. Emacs has a set of emacs-lisp 
libraries called MULE (which stands for MUlti-Lingual Editing or some such 
thing), which provides options for inputting Sanskrit with diacritical marks 
in Unicode, Japanese, Big 5 Chinese, mainland Chinese, Korean and many other 
languages. (Anybody out there translating the Pali canon into Cherokee or 
Inuktitut? Emacs is the tool for you.)

Emacs is an editor, not a word processor. It is most useful for editing text 
with markup language---such as Scribe, TeX, HTML, XML, or troff---for 
printing commands. 

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico