From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: 36717@debbugs.gnu.org, alessi@robertalessi.net
Subject: bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 17:51:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8336j2ulgo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2wogedr3w.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:41:07 +0200)
> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: 36717@debbugs.gnu.org, alessi@robertalessi.net
> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:41:07 +0200
>
> >>>>> On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 17:26:59 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
>
> Eli> As hinted by the last line above, you should try the reverse: type
> Eli> "C-x 8 RET 3b9" followed by "C-x 8 RET 301". Then compare that with
> Eli> what you get for "C-x 8 RET 3af".
>
> OK, thatʼs clear now. No sane person would ever do it that way, though :-)
Exactly my point, wrt the "advice" to use characters from the Basic
Greek block + diacriticals instead of the precomposed characters.
> >> We donʼt provide both forms within the same input method.
>
> Eli> I don't see why this would be a problem. We should provide the
> Eli> variant expected by modern Greek in the input methods which target
> Eli> modern Greek, and the variants for Classic Greek in input methods
> Eli> which target that. Bonus points for providing at least some of the
> Eli> other variants in each type of the input methods.
>
> That would be convenient, but should perhaps be a new, separate, input
> method.
Could be. However, the existing input methods already provide some of
the characters in both variants, and they certainly provide both oxia
and tonos as separate diacriticals.
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2019-07-18 9:03 bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts Robert Alessi
2019-07-18 14:54 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-18 17:32 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-18 18:06 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-18 18:47 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-18 18:57 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-18 20:14 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-18 20:32 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-19 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-19 8:27 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-19 9:09 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-19 12:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-19 13:27 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-19 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-19 14:41 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-19 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-07-19 14:52 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-19 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-19 15:14 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-19 14:45 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-19 8:58 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-19 9:26 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-19 9:42 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-19 9:49 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-19 10:03 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-19 11:49 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-19 13:32 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-19 12:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-19 13:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-19 13:31 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-19 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-16 13:59 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-07-19 13:29 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-19 13:33 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-19 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-19 9:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-19 9:54 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-19 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-19 13:47 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-18 18:19 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-18 20:19 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-18 20:52 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-18 18:16 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-18 18:47 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-18 20:27 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-18 20:23 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-19 9:40 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-18 18:16 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-18 20:29 ` Robert Alessi
2019-07-19 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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