Re: Latin 9 characters cropping up from XKB usage

Hrvoje> That depends on the outlook. I completely understand if Hrvoje> es-tzet gets unconditionally assigned to Latin 1, and I Hrvoje> wouldn't call it wrong. Bad example, I guess. Are there _no_ characters used in Croation (or other Latin-2-supported languages) that get assigned to Latin 1 by the "use the first ISO 8859 charset that contains the character" algorithm? For the extreme case consider Latin 9, where everything, except the Euro, gets assigned to another Latin character set. Hrvoje> On the other hand, Croatian XEmacs users, including Hrvoje> myself, *do* expect š and ž (which they have on their Hrvoje> keyboards and use daily) to be part of Latin 2, so that Hrvoje> they can safely enter all Croatian chars and save the Hrvoje> buffer as Latin 2. *sigh* It's such a shame the Mule designers had to be Japanese. ISO 8859 very clearly[1] thinks of the various "parts" (ie, Latin 1, Latin 2, ISO Greek, etc) as _subsets_, and you should be able to save a buffer in any of the subsets which contains all the buffer characters. Only Japanese would have such a strong bias toward implementing the ISO 8859 character sets as disjoint. We really, really need to go to Unicode internally to force this mess to change. Footnotes: [1] In hindsight. I realized this thanks to your rants. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.