From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: quail input methods and conversion functions Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:16:20 +0100 Message-ID: <87tvurldff.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <878tcbdpf3.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <876078p1gy.fsf@md5i.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518102977 22339 195.159.176.226 (8 Feb 2018 15:16:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 15:16:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 08 16:16:13 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ejnva-0004jk-CI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:15:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43601 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejnxb-0007w9-9z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 10:18:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48444) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejnwy-0007WL-Qm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 10:17:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejnwu-0003EO-O7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 10:17:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36338 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejnwu-0003DY-H3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 10:17:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ejnuF-0008In-ER for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:14:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:Hph2GabXaXMQYUKfPGYLq1fIfL8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222624 Archived-At: >>> "Michael" == Michael Welsh Duggan writes: > Uwe Brauer 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.