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

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> CC: miles@gnu.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, nick.steeves@uleth.ca,
> 	emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org
> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:54:31 -0500
> 
>     Yes, but the input methods that are suggested for modification are for
>     Latin-1, which AFAIK does not support the euro character.  Am I
>     missing something?
> 
> Is that the difference between Latin-1 and Latin-9?
> I suspect that most of us use Latin-1 out of habit.
> 
> Those of us who prefer postfix have no choice.
> There is a Latin-9-Prefix, but no Latin-9-Postfix.
> 
> If the solution is going to be "Stop using Latin-1 and use Latin-9",
> we need to provide Latin-9 equivalents for all the Latin-1 input
> methods.

What bothers me is that the same input method suddenly switches the
encoding I need to use from under my feet, just because I used one
particular character supported by that input method.  And on top of
that, if I already used some of the characters not in Latin-9, my only
practical choice is UTF-8.  Somehow, this sounds wrong to me, but it
looks like I'm the only one bothered by that, so maybe this problem
exists only in my eyes.