Re: quail input methods and conversion functions

[Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>]

>>> "Michael" == Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com> writes:

   > Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
   >> In ancient pre Mule times, there was iso-unacentuate which for example
   >> would translatex ä to "a
   >> 
   >> 
   >> Does something like this exist for all, or some quail input methods?

   > It seems to exist.  The interactive version is `M-x quail-show-key', and
   > the programmatic version is `quail-find-key'.  For example, using the
   > latin-1-prefix input method, M-x quail-show-key on ä outputs:

   >   To input ‘ä’, type ""a"

   > and (quail-find-key ?ä) -> ("\"a")

   > Both of these depend on the current input method, of course.

Thanks, but these functions do not convert globally, that is for a
region or file, between the two sets.

I mean suppose I have

 Über den Wolken, unter dem Öl,

Should give when converted

"Uber den Wolken, unter dem "Ol.

And vice versa, same way as iso-accentuate and iso-unaccentuate
worked/s.