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Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} in
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David Kastrup |
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Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods |
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Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:51:29 +0100 |
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Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
> In article <address@hidden>, David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>> In fact, I find it somewhat silly to have different latin-x input
>> methods at all. Why don't we replace them all with a single latin
>> input method, or with language specific ones? It seems somewhat
>> pointless to have input methods that meticulously avoid producing a
>> certain character when this character can be produced by any number
>> of other means.
>
> I can think of one reason to have them. While one is using
> latin-x-* input methods, he can think that he never type a
> character not included in latin-x. In other word, if he
> wants to type a character not supproted by latin-x-* input
> methods, he must expect that his file can't be saved by
> latin-x.
So he does when using cut&paste, or quite a few other means of producing
characters. I really don't think that we are doing people much of a
favor of maintaining a lot of slightly different character-set specific
input methods. It would make more sense to have some mechanism complain
upon any way of inserting non-encodable characters (using buffer
modification hooks, for example), and then have just one generic
well-maintained latin input method rather than a dozen "forks". It
would also be possible to auto-prune input methods depending on the
desired target encoding (for example, use the TeX input encoding for
accented letters but tell it not to produce things outside of latin-9).
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/01
- Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods, David Kastrup, 2008/03/01
- Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods, Kenichi Handa, 2008/03/01
- Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/01
- Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods, David Kastrup, 2008/03/01
- Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/01
- Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods, Jason Rumney, 2008/03/01
- Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/01
Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/01
Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/01
Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/01