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: Insert Euro symbol Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 21:59:20 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87offyk786.fsf@wesley.springies.com> <200205031825.g43IPUb00711@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020456036 14092 127.0.0.1 (3 May 2002 20:00:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 20:00:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ats@acm.org, 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 173jEK-0003fB-00 for ; Fri, 03 May 2002 22:00:36 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 173jKA-00025i-00 for ; Fri, 03 May 2002 22:06:39 +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 173jDv-0004KO-00; Fri, 03 May 2002 16:00:11 -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 173jDD-0004H1-00; Fri, 03 May 2002 15:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g43JxPb25027; Fri, 3 May 2002 21:59:25 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id VAA24602; Fri, 3 May 2002 21:59:20 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 4EA553AF20; Fri, 3 May 2002 21:59:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200205031825.g43IPUb00711@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 3 May 2002 12:25:30 -0600 (MDT)") Original-Lines: 37 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:3551 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3551 Richard Stallman writes: > It seems like a serious drawback that the latin-1-postfix input method > (and other similar ones) does not provide for inputting Latin-1 (or > whichever character set's) nonalphabetic characters. The latin-1-postfix method allows for inserting a lot of nonletters. There is no latin-9-postfix, but latin-9-prefix allows for inserting the Euro sign. Maybe there is a misunderstanding here? Originally, I was asking for a C-x 8 sequence to insert the Euro sign (which is not part of Latin-1, only of Latin-9), but the theme of the thread has since changed: Suppose I use the german-prefix input method, which allows convenient input of =E4 but not =E9. I don't want to use the latin-1-prefix input method because it changes the behavior of the ' key which I don't want. Nevertheless, I have a friend named Andr=E9 and so I want to be able to type his name correctly. At the moment, I use C-x 8 ' e to type the nonascii character. C-x 8 uses an obsolete method for entering characters, so it's a good idea to replace it with something more modern. But, IMVHO, just telling people to use input methods won't cut it. For entering a single character, I have to type C-u C-\, select the latin-1-prefix input method, type ' e to enter the character, then type C-u C-\ to switch back to my normal german-prefix input method. This is inconvenient. While we're changing C-x 8 anyway, support could be added for entering non-Latin-1 characters, as well. (In particular, the Euro sign.) kai --=20 Silence is foo!