Re: More Latin-9 input methods?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     There are characters in Latin-1 that are missing from Latin-9, and
>     vice versa.  If there is only one input method, what should it do
>     with these characters?
>
> Perhaps it could have a list of pairs of characters, each Latin-1-only
> character paired with one Latin-9-only character.  Then there would be
> a sequence for each pair.

It might be difficult to pair them up.  For example, the code point
for the latin-1 character that looks like "3/4" is the same as the
code point for the latin-9 character that looks like Y with two dots
on top.  So one is a letter and the other is a nonletter.

Is it really a problem to have the duplication between Latin-1 and
Latin-9?  In the long run (after Emacs changes to Unicode internally)
it would be good to make the distinction go away.  But in the
meantime, Latin-1 and Latin-2 also share a lot of characters, yet
the input methods are separate.

kai
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