Japanese characters?

[Christian Brabandt]

On Do, 21 Jan 2021, meine wrote:

> hi,
> 
> by accident I discovered that I can compose Japanese kana (hiragana,
> katakana) in mutt. I wonder if this is a feature, or somewhere lurking
> in my mutt and FreeBSD setup (although I only use default software and
> settings). I have NL language settings for UTF-8 on a user level in my
> system, and use Vim as the editor for my emails. BTW, this described
> here doesn't work in Vim, but only in mutt.
> 
> It works like this:
> 
> typing a letter, then backspace and then another letter -- just making a
> typo and correcting it.
> 
> m <backspace> e --> め (hiragana `me`)
> 
> M <backspace> e -- メ (katakana `me`)
> 
> it just works with all characters, only the plain `a` in both writings I
> cannot find.
> 
> this way of composing also gives acces to Cyrillic `ja` я, ju `ю` and
> `cs` щ, and also to e.g. Arabic numbers ۰ ۱ ۲ ۳ ۴ ۵ ۶ ۷ ۸ and ۹ by
> combining a number and `a` as described above.
> 
> this way of composing is different from typing characters that are
> behind the <AltG> or right-alt key, which I use for typing several
> European languages (å ä é ø æ ü, etc).
> 
> somehow it is funny to be able to write my name in Japanese, but it can
> also be a PITA when making too much typo's. so my question is:
> 
> * is this a feature of mutt?
> 
> * can it be switched on/off somehow?

This sound like you have `:set digraph` in your vim editor (might be in 
a filetype plugin or autocommand, so that is only applies to mails you 
edit from mutt).

regards,
Christian
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