From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: composed characters question and suggestions for quail-cyrillic-* Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:51:54 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87tzeyakc5.fsf@jurta.org> References: <86lk19mmua.fsf@lifelogs.com> <485298A4.30000@gnu.org> <867ict8awn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zlouswvk.fsf@jurta.org> <86skulfo7j.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fxql8j7y.fsf@jurta.org> <86y74ccrp4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87od583s2a.fsf@jurta.org> <86wsjv6o6i.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215634417 16053 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2008 20:13:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 20:13:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: James Cloos Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 09 22:14:24 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KGg38-0006MD-E0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:14:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49631 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGg2G-0001sI-CD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:13:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGg29-0001og-Gu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGg27-0001lz-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34220 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGg27-0001lf-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:12:59 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]:1366) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KGg26-0001EW-7I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:12:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KGg1z-0003DW-Ie; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:12:51 +0300 In-Reply-To: (James Cloos's message of "Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:02:42 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: ef6c50392af5ec65634338665e82f3c2 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Trusted X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 4270 [July 9 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: common white list} X-SpamTest-Method: white ip list X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 X-SpamTest-Status: Trusted X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: trusted X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100498 Archived-At: > Ted> /.. -> … (or whatever is appropriate for this one) > > After some further discussions and research, it is looking like the > single character is better after all. Irregardless of the character's > provenance, it is what users expect. Yes, this is natural to expect a Unicode input method producing a single Unicode character. Then how about the following rules: /. "․" U2024 # ONE DOT LEADER /.. "‥" U2025 # TWO DOT LEADER /... "…" ellipsis # HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/