Re: Russian numero sign

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
> > Activate `russian-computer' input method and type S-3 (i.e. the hash
> > sign on US English layout.) 
> > [...]
> >   character: � (3696, #o7160, #xe70)
> >     charset: cyrillic-iso8859-5 [...]
> 
> > [...]
> > There is actually a Unicode character `numero sign', U+2116, which I
> > can type in other desktop applications (probably through XIM)
> > [...]
> >   character: № (342742, #o1235326, #x53ad6, U+2116)
> >     charset: mule-unicode-0100-24ff [...]
> 
> Try unify-8859-on-decoding-mode, which changes the behaviour of your
> input method.
>
> Alternatively use unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, than cyrillic-iso8859-5
> is preserved during input, but still can be saved as UTF-8.  Of course
> you get UTF-8 when you load the file again, so you will need font
> support for that anyway.

With `unify-8859-on-decoding-mode' I get squares instead of letters (no
glyphs in the font, apparently), the second one seems to work perfectly.
Any reason it is not the default?

Paul