Re: Entering Unicode characters

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 12:03:12 +0900
> 
> Although what I am discussing here is strictly related to current input systems and not to a the new capability that Richard desires, I think the bigger issue here is first discoverability and then input method.
> 
> turkish-postfix offers discoverability for "i". chinese-py offers discoverability for all its characters (presumably), neither latin-1-postfix not latin-1-prefix offer any sort of discoverability and also lack predictability (why does /e= œ but /E=Æ ?, also, when you shift to french-prefix you actually do not get all the characters that you could possibly type in French - ±÷ªº¥°½¾¼ etc. - even though french should be a subset of latin-1, with the exception of œ/Œ.)
> 
> Then there is the input method when you have discovered the character you want to enter. I personally think that offering 2 options when possible (composing character *and* digit) is the best. Composing characters, and in the case of chinese-py we can argue that letters *are* composing characters for all practical purposes, are available for characters that are input frequently by a given user, and digits are there to input the occasional character. There is no logical need to not have a digit based input for composed characters.

Yes, the area of input methods in Emacs needs some long-term loving
care.  They only rarely get any attention, so most methods stay as
they were submitted years ago, and some are no longer up-to-date with
the changes in people expectations.

Would you like to work on making the Emacs input methods better?

Thanks.