From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Eichwalder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Insert Euro symbol Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 17:12:42 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87offyk786.fsf@wesley.springies.com> Reply-To: Karl Eichwalder NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020353266 13287 127.0.0.1 (2 May 2002 15:27:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 15:27:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Shutko , emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 173IUk-0003SC-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2002 17:27:46 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 173Ia0-0005Sb-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2002 17:33:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 173IU3-00034S-00; Thu, 02 May 2002 11:27:03 -0400 Original-Received: from dns.franken.de ([193.175.24.33] helo=elvis.franken.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 173IRH-0002qg-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2002 11:24:11 -0400 Original-Received: from uucp by elvis.franken.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.22 #1) id 173IRC-0001FP-00; Thu, 02 May 2002 17:24:06 +0200 Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id B043EA43F2; Thu, 2 May 2002 17:12:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Thu, 02 May 2002 15:43:05 +0200") Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3506 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3506 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > Indeed. I had forgotten about that. But then, we'd have to create a > version of german-prefix which inserts Latin-9 characters. Which is > not difficult, I guess. I still wish these artificial will vanish... As experience shows again and again this concept is by no means userfriendly. Let the user insert what-ever character he wants and at save time ask him about encodings if any doubt occurs. The ISO-8859-x families are overlapping entities; they are not distinct from each other -- I didn't met a single _user_ who thinks different. --=20 ke@suse.de (work) / keichwa@gmx.net (home): | http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | ,__o Free Translation Project: | _-\_<, http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/ | (*)/'(*)