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: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:57:59 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1203936672.22517.5.camel@Argo.Styx> <87k5ktuf7d.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87mypo5x1e.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <1204070698.4334.39.camel@Argo.Styx> <878x14lw94.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ejawam2n.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204361928 29485 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2008 08:58:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 08:58:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, nick.steeves@uleth.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org, miles@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 01 09:59:13 2008 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 1JVNYj-00051h-9b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:59:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVNYC-00030b-Sz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:58:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVNXy-0002id-63 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:58:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVNXw-0002hX-KQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:58:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVNXw-0002hN-Ej for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:58:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JVNXn-0001gp-P6; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:58:12 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JVNXn-0007zN-2Z; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:58:11 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-228-118.inter.net.il [84.229.228.118]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id JIR38428 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:55:37 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:54:31 -0500) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:90960 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: miles@gnu.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, nick.steeves@uleth.ca, > emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org > Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:54:31 -0500 > > Yes, but the input methods that are suggested for modification are for > Latin-1, which AFAIK does not support the euro character. Am I > missing something? > > Is that the difference between Latin-1 and Latin-9? > I suspect that most of us use Latin-1 out of habit. > > Those of us who prefer postfix have no choice. > There is a Latin-9-Prefix, but no Latin-9-Postfix. > > If the solution is going to be "Stop using Latin-1 and use Latin-9", > we need to provide Latin-9 equivalents for all the Latin-1 input > methods. What bothers me is that the same input method suddenly switches the encoding I need to use from under my feet, just because I used one particular character supported by that input method. And on top of that, if I already used some of the characters not in Latin-9, my only practical choice is UTF-8. Somehow, this sounds wrong to me, but it looks like I'm the only one bothered by that, so maybe this problem exists only in my eyes.