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: Sun, 05 May 2002 13:42:57 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200205041502.g44F2Xt01270@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 1020599132 960 127.0.0.1 (5 May 2002 11:45:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 11:45:32 +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 174KSJ-0000FN-00 for ; Sun, 05 May 2002 13:45:31 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 174KYx-0006Ip-00 for ; Sun, 05 May 2002 13:52:24 +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 174KSE-0003uQ-00; Sun, 05 May 2002 07:45:26 -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 174KPw-00032z-00; Sun, 05 May 2002 07:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g45Bh3b02273; Sun, 5 May 2002 13:43:03 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id NAA11039; Sun, 5 May 2002 13:42:58 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id C9A9C3AF20; Sun, 5 May 2002 13:42:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200205041502.g44F2Xt01270@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 4 May 2002 09:02:33 -0600 (MDT)") Original-Lines: 21 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:3598 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3598 Richard Stallman writes: > Would it be a good idea to create more Latin-9 input methods? For > example, Germans are probably switching from Latin-1 to Latin-9, but > the german-prefix input method produces Latin-1 characters. > > I think we should improve input method support for Latin-9, > but I think that it would be much simpler to add a flag > to make Latin-1 input methods handle Latin-9 instead, > rather than making a whole set of alternate input methods. 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? (As a very concrete example, the Latin-9 version of german-prefix should allow for entering of the Euro sign, which is not in Latin-1.) kai -- Silence is foo!