compare input methods: iso-accents-mode and quail

Hello I do not want to talk about coding systems but about input methods. I will also presume the use an american keyboard. (Kubuntu 6.10) I have not really used Mule on a regular base, so maybe what I am going to ask sounds very basic. On NoMule Xemacs I am used to iso-accents-mode which allows me to generate latin1 characters such as "Spanish" and "German" characters by typing 7bit ASCII code such as 'o --> ó "a--> ä Etc. I can restrict that only to Spanish or only to German. (Although I did not want to talk a about coding these symbols are later stored as unibyte 8859-1 chars.) Two things I want to emphasize: - I can toggle iso-accents-mode ON and OFF. - I an iso-accentuate and iso-unaccentuate whole regions, changing 8 bit to 7 bit and back. In Mule, according to my understanding, the closest thing would be using quail and there the "german-pre" and "spanish-pre" method (I think one could still use iso-accents-mode but that is not my point here.) Now it seems - I cannot toggle off these input methods. - I cannot change the chars back to the 7bit ASCII, that is there is not equivalent to iso-unaccentuate. I would find this especially useful for the TeX-input we recently discussed. Would it be possible to implement these two properties for quail? thanks Uwe Brauer _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta