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Latin-1 and Latin-2 are very different.  Each has a number
of single-language input methods, but they are for different languages.
By contrast, Latin-1 and Latin-9 are meant for the same languages,
are they not?

Meanwhile, most of the input methods (the ones for specific languages,
suchas german-prefix) use only characters that are the same in Latin-1
and Latin-9.  So it would be trivial to set these up to work in both
character sets depending on a flag.  Meanwhile, we should
have separate input methods latin-1-postfix and latin-9-postfix.