iso-accents mode? (was: quail)
> Regarding quail; "Stephen J. Turnbull"
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> adds:
Julian Bradfield writes:
> Is there any thought on the future of Quail in XEmacs?
Not really. From the user point of view, most XEmacs users use
platform input methods (eg, compose keys, AltGr, etc) for non-ASCII
characters. Asian users typically have many options (eg, for Japanese
I use either Canna or Anthy), and Japanese Quail doesn't work at all
because it uses features that were introduced into GNU Emacs
specifically to support advanced features in Japanese Quail.
I only ever use Quail for the occasional accented character in
European names, so I don't know much about it. Maybe Aidan knows a
lot more, though.
Now that is interesting, I thought you would use quail for
Japanese. If you just stick to European languages, I must
say I find good old iso-accents mode better and faster. The
only thing which I could get to work was oe, as in french
coer heart.
I really then don't understand the role of quail.
But that is also the beauty of Xemacs[1], you can use
iso-accents-mode and save it in say utf-8, while in GNU
emacs you can't as a matter of fact iso-accents-mode seems
pretty useless there.
Uwe Brauer
Footnotes:
[1] at least for me at seems as an advantage may be GNU
emacs users might have different opinions.
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