From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cedilla input in UTF-8 locale with dead keys. Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:05:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1192198027.4579.11.camel@hamlet.sagui> <47136773.1010302@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192458370 20847 80.91.229.12 (15 Oct 2007 14:26:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:26:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gustavo@sagui.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa To: Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 15 16:26:00 2007 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 1IhQZf-0006wx-7N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:05:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhQZY-0006UE-Hi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:05:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhQZV-0006Sk-8k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:05:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhQZT-0006RA-KQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:05:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhQZS-0006Qy-Pj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:05:26 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts43.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.110] helo=tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IhQZS-0000k6-4o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:05:26 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.53.192.75]) by tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20071015140525.SUVE26794.tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home> for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:05:25 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1698A7FEC; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:05:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <47136773.1010302@swipnet.se> ("Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv=22?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?'s?= message of "Mon\, 15 Oct 2007 15\:13\:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:80924 Archived-At: > FWIW, Gtk+ has a special handling of this. Gtk+ also processes all compose > itself, rather than using X. See Gtk+ sources, modules/input/imcedilla.c: > /* The difference between this and the default input method is the handling > * of C+acute - this method produces C WITH CEDILLA rather than C WITH ACUTE. > * For languages that use CCedilla and not acute, this is the preferred mapping, > * and is particularly important for pt_BR, where the us-intl keyboard is > * used extensively. > */ > Since Emacs does not use Gtk+ for character input, we don't get that mapping. Looks like brain-damage on the part of the Gtk guys: if there's a problem in this area, it should be fixed in Xlib, not in Gtk. I'd rather follow the standard X behavior (and maybe lobby for its change), than use some ad-hoc workaround. Stefan