Re: Latin 9 characters cropping up from XKB usage
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
But I'm confused. Suppose you want to use a SHARP S or some
other
letter, which is common to ISO 8859/1 and ISO 8859/2. Surely that's
a reasonable thing for you to do. But it gets assigned the charset
latin-iso8859-1 (which is wrong for you), doesn't it? Don't you
perceive that as breakage too?
That depends on the outlook. I completely understand if es-tzet gets
unconditionally assigned to Latin 1, and I wouldn't call it wrong. It
might be "wrong" for a very specific set of expectations (mixing
Croatian and German and expecting all characters to be in the Latin 2
range) which are very rare in the real world.
On the other hand, Croatian XEmacs users, including myself, *do*
expect š and ž (which they have on their keyboards and use daily) to
be part of Latin 2, so that they can safely enter all Croatian chars
and save the buffer as Latin 2.