Re: FW: Emacs non-ascii characters

[Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>]

 Ar an cúigiú lá is fiche de mí na Samhain, scríobh Jason Rumney: 

 > Kenichi Handa wrote:
 > 
 > >If this situation is not good, have about this change.
 > >
 > >***************
 > >*** 2129,2135 ****
 > >      ;; That's actually what the GNU locales define, modulo things like
 > >      ;; en_IN -- fx.
 > >      ("en_IN" "English" utf-8) ; glibc uses utf-8 for English in India
 > >!     ("en" . "Latin-1") ; English
 > >      ("eo" . "Latin-3") ; Esperanto
 > >      ("es" "Spanish" iso-8859-1)
 > >      ("et" . "Latin-1") ; Estonian
 > >--- 2138,2144 ----
 > >      ;; That's actually what the GNU locales define, modulo things like
 > >      ;; en_IN -- fx.
 > >      ("en_IN" "English" utf-8) ; glibc uses utf-8 for English in India
 > >!     ("en" "English" iso-8859-1) ; English
 > >      ("eo" . "Latin-3") ; Esperanto
 > >      ("es" "Spanish" iso-8859-1)
 > >      ("et" . "Latin-1") ; Estonian
 > >
 > >  
 > >
 > en_GB at least needs to default to Latin-1 because of the pound sign.

That’s a non-sequitur. en_GB environments typically have the pound sign
available on the keyboard, and don’t need an input method for it.

Latin-1 is a sane default for English, because of words like café, façade,
naïve that orthographically need it, even if this need has been ignored. 

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