From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: More Latin-9 input methods? Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 11:58:39 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200205041502.g44F2Xt01270@aztec.santafe.edu> <200205060624.g466OQn01967@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020687370 5653 127.0.0.1 (6 May 2002 12:16:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 12:16:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 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 174hPW-0001T4-00 for ; Mon, 06 May 2002 14:16:10 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 174hWf-0005M6-00 for ; Mon, 06 May 2002 14:23:33 +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 174hPB-0007oj-00; Mon, 06 May 2002 08:15:49 -0400 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.4.42]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 174fGY-0007yw-00; Mon, 06 May 2002 05:58:46 -0400 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g469wjb24367; Mon, 6 May 2002 11:58:45 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id LAA05850; Mon, 6 May 2002 11:58:39 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id A22263AF1C; Mon, 6 May 2002 11:58:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200205060624.g466OQn01967@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 6 May 2002 00:24:26 -0600 (MDT)") Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) 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:3627 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3627 Richard Stallman 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 -- Silence is foo!