bug#16082: iso-transl: expand towards ISO 10646 from just ISO 8859-1

bug#16082: iso-transl: expand towards ISO 10646 from just ISO 8859-1

[Ivan Shmakov]

Package:  emacs
Severity: wishlist

	As currently implemented, C-x 8 (iso-transl-ctl-x-8-map) is a
	rough equivalent of a compose key, pre-loaded with a number of
	combinations for ISO 8859-1 codepoints.  However, I see no
	reason not to go further and provide additional bindings for
	(the superset’s) ISO 10646 ones.  For instance, in addition to
	C-x 8 1 / 2 (½) and C-x 8 3 / 4 (¾), there could easily be C-x 8
	1 / 8 for ⅛ and C-x 8 3 / 5 for ⅗.

	My guess is that everything described [1] as a “vulgar fraction”
	or a sub- or superscript digit can be added to the keymap
	without altering the current bindings, — as well as probably a
	number of other codepoints.

	Personally, I’d rather appreciate bindings to the single (‘ ’)
	and double (“ ”) quotation marks (which I’ve already bound to
	C-x 8 ' [, ] and C-x 8 " [, ] in my ~/.emacs.)

[1] http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt

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bug#16082: iso-transl: expand towards ISO 10646 from just ISO 8859-1

[Paul Eggert]

Somehow I'm not CC'ed when people send email to 20499@debbugs.gnu.org even 
though I filed Bug#20499.  Possibly this occurred because Bug#20499 and 
Bug#16082 have been merged.  So I'm sending this email to 16082@debbugs.gnu.org 
partly to notify other correspondents of the problem, and partly in the hope 
that it'll cause debbugs to add me to the discussion of Bug#20499.  Hope springs 
eternal.

bug#16082: iso-transl: expand towards ISO 10646 from just ISO 8859-1

[Stefan Monnier]

> Somehow I'm not CC'ed when people send email to 20499@debbugs.gnu.org even
> though I filed Bug#20499.  Possibly this occurred because Bug#20499 and
> Bug#16082 have been merged.

Hmm... I'm having a hard time believing that debbugs would have such a bug.

> So I'm sending this email to 16082@debbugs.gnu.org partly to notify
> other correspondents of the problem, and partly in the hope that it'll
> cause debbugs to add me to the discussion of Bug#20499.
> Hope springs eternal.

IIUC debbugs does not automatically add email addresses to the
"subscribers" of a bug report.  You need to register
explicitly, instead.


        Stefan

bug#16082: iso-transl: expand towards ISO 10646 from just ISO 8859-1

[Glenn Morris]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Somehow I'm not CC'ed when people send email to 20499@debbugs.gnu.org
> even though I filed Bug#20499.

It's because Ivan Shmakov replies only to the list, not to all.
So when people reply to him, you've already been lost.
I have tried to make this point in the past.