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

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Cc: eliz@gnu.org,  rms@gnu.org,  cyd@stupidchicken.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  nick.steeves@uleth.ca,  miles@gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:51:29 +0100
>> 
>> > I can think of one reason to have them.  While one is using
>> > latin-x-* input methods, he can think that he never type a
>> > character not included in latin-x.  In other word, if he
>> > wants to type a character not supproted by latin-x-* input
>> > methods, he must expect that his file can't be saved by
>> > latin-x.
>> 
>> So he does when using cut&paste, or quite a few other means of producing
>> characters.
>
> That's true, but it doesn't make the problem easier.

The point was that input methods may not be the best place to tackle
this problem (which does not happen to be a problem for me, but that's a
different question).

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