Re: Any use cases of `iso-transl-language-list'?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Tor Kringeland <tor.a.s.kringeland@ntnu.no>
> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 21:40:45 +0100
> 
> This feature seems to have been implemented around 1995, and I would
> guess a lot has changed since then with input methods in Emacs.  It does
> no harm, of course, but is there really a use case for this anymore?  Is
> it something that could be deprecated (at least for Portuguese, Spanish
> and French, for which I cannot see any real use case with the current
> implementation) in favor of input methods or using the regular `C-x 8'
> map, which for each character only requires one key-stroke more?

If this does no harm, then what would we gain from deprecating it?
Some people might be using that, for whatever reasons, so the risk to
break someone's use patterns is there.  Are there any gains to justify
that?

Thanks.