Re: [PATCH] Support standard ASCII-IPA mappings in leim/quail/ipa.el.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:59:58 +0100
> From: Aidan Kehoe <address@hidden>
> 
> this patch addes support for the more-widely used ones to it, with
> two new input methods, kirshenbaum-ipa and x-sampa-ipa, following the names
> of the two conventions.

Thanks.

> It also moves the file encoding to UTF-8, since Kirshenbaum and X-SAMPA
> require more character codes than are provided by the Mule IPA character
> set, and since UTF-8 is more compatible with other applications. 

IMO, the second reason is not good enough for us to change the
encoding so close to the release.  However, I don't understand the
first reason: are you saying that some of the IPA characters are not
supported by Emacs 22?  If so, how will UTF-8 help here?