Re: Using quail input methods to translate buffer text.

[Peter Heslin <pj@heslin.eclipse.co.uk>]

Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:

> Ok, I see.  Then, I'll work on emacs-unicode-2 branch to
> modify Quail so that such a feature can be more easily
> implemented.

Just to make sure it is clear: my current quail-conv code does
everything I need it to do (which is translating text in polytonic Greek
LaTeX encodings which are not supported by any other tools such as GNU
recode).  I'm not sure whether it would be of real use to anyone to
extend this to the more complex interactive input methods.  I don't know
whether these complex input methods correspond exactly to text as it may
be stored in files, which is the case for many of the simple input
methods.  Before anyone goes to a great deal of trouble to implement
this, he or she should make sure that it will be genuinely useful
functionality.

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Peter Heslin (http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin)