Re: More Latin-9 input methods?

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

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> Latin-1 and Latin-2 are very different.  Each has a number
> of single-language input methods, but they are for different languages.
> By contrast, Latin-1 and Latin-9 are meant for the same languages,
> are they not?

I confess that I'm not sure.  Latin-9 adds some letters which look as
if they might be intended for an Eastern European language, but I'm
not sure.

> Meanwhile, most of the input methods (the ones for specific languages,
> suchas german-prefix) use only characters that are the same in Latin-1
> and Latin-9.  So it would be trivial to set these up to work in both
> character sets depending on a flag.  

I guess that each Latin-9 method would be equal to the Latin-1 method
plus a way to type the Euro sign.  So they are indeed very similar.

Let me try to cons up something.

> Meanwhile, we should have separate input methods latin-1-postfix and
> latin-9-postfix.

These are already there, which is good.

kai
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