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bug#51638: 26.1; Writing Romanian Characters
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#51638: 26.1; Writing Romanian Characters |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:48:59 +0200 |
> Cc: 51638@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: crstml@libero.it
> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2021 02:03:12 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > Please try the patch below. After applying the patch, typing "s ,"
> > will show two variants in the echo-area, and you can choose between
> > them with C-f/C-b and the arrow keys.
> >
> > Is that a satisfactory solution?
>
> The solution is satisfactory for personal use. Thank you very much.
> But there the following issues:
>
> 1) The patch is not complete for Romanian. A solution for Romanian
> should also handle the T and t letters. I send you attached a patch
> based on yours that handles also these letters
Thanks, I installed that.
> 2) For example if I try to type the Romanian word "Șes" then when I
> try to write the "S WITH COMMA", after I type "S" "," and finally
> a "C-f" to select my letter then best for a user would to type the
> next letter that follows in his/her word ("e" in this case). But it
> doesn't work. If the user types "e" then the first choice is inserted
> in the buffer. The user must select the second letter with an ENTER.
That's how Emacs input methods work when there's more than one
translation of what you typed.
> 3) For general use a better solution should exist because it is not
> very user friendly to type so many characters to select your letter.
> Probably a true Romanian language environment based on
> ISO-8859-16 should be provided. The actual choice of ISO-8859-2
> for the Romanian environment probably is not the best.
>
> For example I will modify your patch to insert my ISO-8859-16
> characters instead of those in ISO-LATIN-2. Because if I write Romanian
> I never have to interact with the s an t variants in ISO-LATIN-2.
Patches to add such an language-environment will be welcome.
Thanks.