From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: handa@m17n.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
nick.steeves@uleth.ca, eliz@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:32:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je3arak1s5.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JVGqN-0001Yn-JR@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri\, 29 Feb 2008 20\:48\:55 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> If they are using the Euro sign they probably expect Latin-9, unless
> they use UTF-8 in the first place.
>
> The choice of input method is separate from the choice of file coding
> system. In Emacs 22, there are different input methods for Latin-1
> and Latin-9. Even if you save as UTF-8, you have to choose one of them
> or the other.
I agree with David: a "Latin-1" or "Latin-9" input method does not make
any sense any more, now that everything is unified. The main reason for
different input methods that should remain is to represent often used
characters in a particular language and make them easy to type.
Andreas.
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-25 10:51 PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods Nick Steeves
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[not found] ` <E1JTnvq-0008Ol-Rc@etlken.m17n.org>
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[not found] ` <1204070698.4334.39.camel@Argo.Styx>
2008-02-28 19:24 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-28 20:00 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-29 2:26 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-29 4:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-29 5:49 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-29 9:21 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-29 10:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-29 12:02 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-29 12:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-29 13:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-29 14:09 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-29 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-29 14:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-01 1:48 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-01 2:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-29 14:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-01 1:48 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-01 13:32 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2008-02-29 19:24 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-29 14:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-02-29 19:54 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-29 21:38 ` David Kastrup
2008-03-01 8:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-01 10:31 ` David Kastrup
2008-03-01 11:22 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-03-01 11:51 ` David Kastrup
2008-03-01 12:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-01 13:00 ` David Kastrup
2008-03-01 14:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-01 19:53 ` Jason Rumney
2008-03-02 4:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-01 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-01 23:09 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-01 13:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-28 21:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-29 9:56 ` Nick Steeves
2008-02-29 14:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-02 4:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-29 19:54 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-29 20:05 ` Jason Rumney
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