Re: address@hidden: Re: X Input Methods support is not very convenient]

[Richard Stallman]

    To address the current issue, you would just temporarily set LC_CTYPE
    to the locale needed for the user's choice of input method, and
    XMODIFIERS to the input method's identification string.

I am not sure what it means to speak of the "locale needed for the
user's choice of input method".  Are you talking about Emacs input
methods or X input methods?  If the former, they do not have any
locales associated with them.  If the latter, this might make sense
but I don't have any information about them.  How does one find out
the locale needed for an X input method?

Currently Emacs does not set XMODIFIERS.  Does that mean it is
inherited from the user's environment?  If so, isn't it the user's
responsibility to make sure that LC_CTYPE and XMODIFIERS fit together?