[Q] Don't set the current langenv to ja just because someone used a japanese IM
Aidan Kehoe
kehoea at parhasard.net
Thu Aug 16 08:44:10 EDT 2007
Ar an séú lá déag de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull:
> [...] I know from experience that it's very easy to start inputting
> Japanese (eg, with Canna) under a non-Japanese environment and get a file
> full of junk readable only in Emacs (and not always).
>
> I think a reasonable solution here would be to delete the
> set-language-environment call, as you did, and add a language
> environment check to the skk activation function, which warns if
> the language environment is not Japanese. Alternatively there could
> be a variable controlling response to a non-Japanese environment,
> taking values like 'set, 'warn, 'ignore.
>
> What do you think?
I think there’s nothing specific to Japanese about that problem -- or even
to input methods, pasting stuff from a web page has the same problem -- and
that the correct way to solve it is warnings at the time of saving a file,
--
On the quay of the little Black Sea port, where the rescued pair came once
more into contact with civilization, Dobrinton was bitten by a dog which was
assumed to be mad, though it may only have been indiscriminating. (Saki)
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