From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vivek Dasmohapatra Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Entering Unicode characters Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:20:38 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <83twmkkv16.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9i13aly.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="8323329-1325400054-1453742100=:21329" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453742462 7577 80.91.229.3 (25 Jan 2016 17:21:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:21:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ahyatt@gmail.com, johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 25 18:21:01 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aNkp3-0005em-9U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:21:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39947 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNkoz-0005iu-4o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:20:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45242) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNkov-0005gV-30 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:20:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNkou-0005V7-7R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:20:53 -0500 Original-Received: from ceres.etla.org ([2001:ba8:1f1:f1ef::2]:56645) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNkou-0005TO-0K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:20:52 -0500 Original-Received: from platypus.pepperfish.net ([2a01:4f8:201:620f::2001]) by ceres.etla.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aNkoZ-0004T6-S3; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:20:32 +0000 X-X-Sender: vivek@platypus.pepperfish.net In-Reply-To: <83h9i13aly.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) Content-ID: X-Spam_score: -3.0 X-Spam_score_int: -29 X-Spam_bar: --- X-Spam_report: Spam detection software, running on the system "ceres.etla.org", has NOT identified this incoming email as spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: > Indeed, such a feature would be a welcome addition. For situations where xcompose is not availble, why not mimic what xcompose does, albeit with a different prefix? AltGr " e → ë AltGr / o → ø AltGr t e a → ☕ [...] Content analysis details: (-3.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:ba8:1f1:f1ef::2 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:198799 Archived-At: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323329-1325400054-1453742100=:21329 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-ID: > Indeed, such a feature would be a welcome addition. For situations where xcompose is not availble, why not mimic what xcompose does, albeit with a different prefix? AltGr " e → ë AltGr / o → ø AltGr t e a → ☕ That last one is a local mapping I have, but you get the idea. They're even already divided up by locale in the /usr/share/X11/locale/*/Compose files, so a lot of the tedious legwork has already been done. --8323329-1325400054-1453742100=:21329--