From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Entering Unicode characters Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:54:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83twmkkv16.fsf@gnu.org> <6365BE48-3DBC-4047-9DA0-C50D06D7EDD9@gmail.com> <83r3h41jlz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453820133 5716 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2016 14:55:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:55:33 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 26 15:55:23 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 1aO51f-0006Gz-I0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:55:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44531 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO51f-0008Gu-0A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:55:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53372) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO51R-0008Gl-55 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:55:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO51N-0000Fd-UR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:55:09 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52728) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO51N-0000CT-NO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:55:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aO51I-00067L-9D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:55:00 +0100 Original-Received: from 108.161.125.56 ([108.161.125.56]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:55:00 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 108.161.125.56 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:55:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.161.125.56 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zrOsl867AljtRS07pfgJtHL4nS0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:198849 Archived-At: > The advantage of Emacs input methods is that they don't depend on the > locale. (The disadvantage is that they only affect Emacs; but for > someone who lives inside Emacs, that's not a problem ;-) There's another difference: usually the echo area shows which other characters you can type, rather than which characters you can get by typing. E.g. instead of showing "èéêëēėę", it might show something like that [`'^"-.,]. Stefan