Re: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     If they are using the Euro sign they probably expect Latin-9, unless
>     they use UTF-8 in the first place.
>
> The choice of input method is separate from the choice of file coding
> system.  In Emacs 22, there are different input methods for Latin-1
> and Latin-9.  Even if you save as UTF-8, you have to choose one of them
> or the other.

I agree with David: a "Latin-1" or "Latin-9" input method does not make
any sense any more, now that everything is unified.  The main reason for
different input methods that should remain is to represent often used
characters in a particular language and make them easy to type.

Andreas.

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