From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: adding consistent extra symbols to input methods (cyrillic-*, croatian-*, slov*, czech-* etc.) input methods Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:27:45 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87tzey1sri.fsf@jurta.org> References: <86lk19mmua.fsf@lifelogs.com> <485298A4.30000@gnu.org> <867ict8awn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tzfvj16y.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <86lk12zee7.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86r6acqbif.fsf@lifelogs.com> <864p76lp60.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87ej66ubkv.fsf@jurta.org> <87d4lqlj2v.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215650149 2560 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2008 00:35:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:35:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 10 02:36:36 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KGk9B-0002i9-P5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:36:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52372 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGk8K-0003cS-58 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:35:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGk8F-0003cF-Q5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:35:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGk8D-0003c3-Pc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47935 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGk8D-0003c0-MU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:35:33 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]:1979) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KGk89-0004ql-4n; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:35:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KGk86-0008aj-WC; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:35:27 +0300 In-Reply-To: <87d4lqlj2v.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:54:32 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: b36477657b07eb27dc67b07df918f397 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Trusted X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 4278 [July 10 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: common white list} X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: white ip list X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Trusted X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: trusted X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100511 Archived-At: >> and ~5000 other rules for many Unicode characters. >> >> Do you know a better method to input Unicode characters? > > rfc1345 isn't too bad. It also uses mnemonics to a degree (though they > are often kind of weird), and has pretty good coverage. I see rfc1345 is criticized and deprecated in favor of a new standard REPERTOIREMAP from ISO/IEC FCD 14652. Its symbolic names are quite widespread already. Maybe we should implement a new input method based on its symbolic names too? I can't find an existing Emacs implementation. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/