Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> All I was worried about was whether users do assume the current
> latin-* input methods do not produce characters outside a single Latin
> charset.  If users from the European cultures don't mind, neither do
> I.
>   

If the input method is called "latin-1-prefix" (-postfix, -alt), then 
the user would expect it not to produce characters outside the latin-1 
range. But for input methods called "french-prefix" etc, I think they 
would expect to be able to type all letters and symbols in common usage 
in French, which these days includes the euro symbol. European users 
have surely encountered the fact that the euro is not covered by the 
latin-1 character set by now, so if they want to save in latin-1 
encoding, they will simply avoid it. The "latin-*" input methods already 
contain the euro, so there is precedent for including it.