From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:58:18 +0200 Message-ID: <83si11bwat.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455040740 18269 80.91.229.3 (9 Feb 2016 17:59:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 17:59:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 09 18:58:55 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aTCYw-0002tI-LT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:58:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59051 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTCYw-0005Sq-6x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:58:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38627) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTCYe-0005QB-4B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:58:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTCYa-0004kt-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:58:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45330) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTCYa-0004kp-RQ; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:58:32 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1322 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aTCYa-0002M0-7E; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:58:32 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Artur Malabarba on Tue, 9 Feb 2016 17:26:32 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199623 Archived-At: > From: Artur Malabarba > Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 17:26:32 +0000 > > I don't know if it's possible to figure out the language of the user's > keyboard layout. It's possible on some systems (maybe on all of them). But it isn't TRT, IMO, because one can use input methods external to Emacs, which makes this problem unsolvable, AFAIU. I think our energy will be much better spent by preparing a data base of preferences by various groups of users, including (but not limited to) something that can be vaguely called "typical user of language X", for several values of X. I think we can come up with other types of groups as well. Thanks.