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Re: [PATCH] Support standard ASCII-IPA mappings in leim/quail/ipa.el.
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Support standard ASCII-IPA mappings in leim/quail/ipa.el. |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:31:42 +0200 |
> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:59:58 +0100
> From: Aidan Kehoe <address@hidden>
>
> this patch addes support for the more-widely used ones to it, with
> two new input methods, kirshenbaum-ipa and x-sampa-ipa, following the names
> of the two conventions.
Thanks.
> It also moves the file encoding to UTF-8, since Kirshenbaum and X-SAMPA
> require more character codes than are provided by the Mule IPA character
> set, and since UTF-8 is more compatible with other applications.
IMO, the second reason is not good enough for us to change the
encoding so close to the release. However, I don't understand the
first reason: are you saying that some of the IPA characters are not
supported by Emacs 22? If so, how will UTF-8 help here?