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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:273634 Archived-At: On Wed, 1 Sept 2021 at 14:25, Juri Linkov wrote: > > Blunt question: Are you trying to solve this to get a better > > understanding of the Emacs input subsystem (in which case please > > ignore this), or do you just want something done? Because, if you want > > Compose, it=E2=80=99s right there almost out-of-the-box in XKB. > > Emacs 28 has the input method "Compose" corresponding to XKB's Compose > in leim/quail/compose.el, but many useful key sequences in this > input method don't work because of the artificial limitation > to ASCII-only chars in read_char. My point (which some will find offensive) is that maybe one doesn=E2=80=99t need to implement input methods in Emacs. If you have Compose in Emacs, it works in Emacs. If you have Compose in XKB, it works across your whole desktop.