Carlos it may be on your keyboard but as long as you use LANG=en_US you will not be able to type it
It was solved using "LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_ALL=es_ES.UTF-8 emacs", as you said :-)
what is your keyboard layout for etc/X11/XF86Config
Section "InputDevice" Driver "Keyboard" Identifier "Keyboard[0]" Option "Protocol" "Standard" Option "XkbLayout" "tr" <---------- Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" EndSection
I don't think that had anything to do, it is correct: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard[0]" Driver "Keyboard" Option "MapName" "Standard Keyboard [ pc102 ]" Option "Protocol" "Standard" Option "XkbLayout" "es" <-------------- Option "XkbModel" "pc102" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" EndSection I'm always starting emacs from inside xterm (emacs file1 file2 &) in order to save keystrokes loading the files, and to position it at the working directory. I'm the kind of lazy people that go extra steps to save other steps every day ;-) The funny thing is that emacs is the first program I find that refuses to acept the egnie letter (ñ) even using the "LANG=en_US" locale: all editors worked... but emacs :-p Thanks for your help :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson