From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PATCH: iso-cvt.elL: add \textquestiondown =?windows-1252?Q?=BF?= Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 17:57:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87a89t2gez.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87mvdstkwu.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1486853875 22550 195.159.176.226 (11 Feb 2017 22:57:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 22:57:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 11 23:57:50 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ccgc1-0005TP-BS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2017 23:57:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49888 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ccgc6-0007Ud-K9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2017 17:57:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47577) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ccgbw-0007UN-M4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2017 17:57:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ccgbr-0003jK-RR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2017 17:57:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=39938 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ccgbr-0003i6-Io for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2017 17:57:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ccgbg-0004IC-VY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2017 23:57:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ecVmL3vEJfNseNMvwUTqNPmevww= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:212249 Archived-At: > But I thought iso-cvt.el is for converting 7bit strings in (La)TeX > files, to latin-1, utf8 or whatever Actually, it converts to "Emacs characters" (i.e. an internal representation). So it's not specifically latin-1 nor utf-8, tho it was originally mostly aimed at converting those characters covered by latin-1. > while the quail stuff is independent that and for input only, at least > I cannot see any conversion function in latin-ltx. Indeed, they don't do the same thing. > So if I understand you correctly you would like to merge iso-cvt.el with > quail-ltx.el? So that one would end up only with one translation table > and then either input functionality or conversion functionality. I'm not sure if merging the two would really be the best option, but at least have them share a table, so improvements to one carry over to the other. > Do I understand that correctly? But I don't think that it would be > helpful that \textquestiondown would be expanded to ¿ while typing. It wouldn't hurt either. Stefan