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Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} in
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Kenichi Handa |
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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 20:22:00 +0900 |
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In article <address@hidden>, David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > What bothers me is that the same input method suddenly switches the
> > encoding I need to use from under my feet, just because I used one
> > particular character supported by that input method.
> Huh? That's not related to the input method at all. The input method
> switches nothing. It is the presence of the character (and in the
> unicode-2 branch, we don't even have to unify those characters anymore)
> in the buffer that requires some specific coding.
> > And on top of that, if I already used some of the characters not in
> > Latin-9, my only practical choice is UTF-8. Somehow, this sounds
> > wrong to me, but it looks like I'm the only one bothered by that, so
> > maybe this problem exists only in my eyes.
> It is not related to input methods. 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-x 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.
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Kenichi Handa
address@hidden
- 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 <=
- 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, 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