From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:45:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87lj1ew6d3.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <20110218083736.GA12190@tomas> <87bp29ag2b.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20110220083003.GB4092@tomas> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298198971 29941 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2011 10:49:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:49:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: tomas@tuxteam.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 20 11:49:27 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pr6qy-0001Lp-BR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:49:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53442 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pr6np-0007ej-Tq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:46:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42110 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pr6ng-0007dg-1D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:46:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pr6nd-0001PX-AY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:45:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:57633) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pr6nd-0001PT-92 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:45:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pr6nd-0008Jv-43; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:45:57 -0500 In-reply-to: <20110220083003.GB4092@tomas> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:136273 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:30:03 +0100 > From: tomas@tuxteam.de > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > As an additional thought: this won't work for non-English speakers, > > > right? > > > > Let's worry about that after the user interface and manuals of Emacs > > have been localized. At the current point of time, this consideration > > seems a bit silly. > > Depends: if you interpret the consideration as "wh must implement > something *now*", it's definitely silly. If you interpret it as "we > should keep that in mind", I'd say it's not But what does it mean, in practice, "to keep this in mind"? Emacs already supports typing text in many languages other than English, and completion works for non-ASCII text as well as for 7-bit ASCII. What specifically should we "keep in mind" while working on an interface that allows to find a certain character?