Re: BibTeX-mode: Key generation when latin-1 characters appear in author field

[Roland Winkler]

On Sun Apr 17 2005 Richard Stallman wrote:
> It does not surprise me that it isn't maintained.  But if you want a
> feature like this, it seems to me you may as well maintain and extend
> iso-cvt.el rather than write something new.

I think that it's an important aspect of this problem that
iso-cvt.el was written in pre-unicode times. There is rather little
I know about unicode. But iso-cvt.el uses ten different translation
tables only to translate between different `representaions' of ISO
8859-1 characters. Therefore, I expect it would be very difficult to
use the same general scheme with more language environments and
coding systems. Furthermore, iso-cvt.el uses a rather conventional
approach that is full of redundancies. I expect that it would be
possible to implement these things in a much more efficient and more
easily customizable way. It would also be very nice if one could
combine these things with different input methods.

I wish I had more time for these things. But currently maintaining
BibTeX mode is all I can do.

Roland