Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     Yes, but the input methods that are suggested for modification are for
>     Latin-1, which AFAIK does not support the euro character.  Am I
>     missing something?
>
> Is that the difference between Latin-1 and Latin-9?
> I suspect that most of us use Latin-1 out of habit.

It is the difference likely to be relevant for most Western people.
Latin-9 has no glyphs for 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, no isolated cedilla, acute and
diaeresis accents (which is not that terrible since there is no
well-defined composition method AFAIK), no "currency symbol" and
explicitly "broken bar".  What it has is Euro sign, S, Z, s and z with
caron (czech accent, I think), the French semi-characters oe and OE and
a capital Y with diaeresis.

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