bug#16082: iso-transl: expand towards ISO 10646 from just ISO 8859-1

[Ivan Shmakov]

Package:  emacs
Severity: wishlist

        As currently implemented, C-x 8 (iso-transl-ctl-x-8-map) is a
        rough equivalent of a compose key, pre-loaded with a number of
        combinations for ISO 8859-1 codepoints.  However, I see no
        reason not to go further and provide additional bindings for
        (the superset’s) ISO 10646 ones.  For instance, in addition to
        C-x 8 1 / 2 (½) and C-x 8 3 / 4 (¾), there could easily be C-x 8
        1 / 8 for ⅛ and C-x 8 3 / 5 for ⅗.

        My guess is that everything described [1] as a “vulgar fraction”
        or a sub- or superscript digit can be added to the keymap
        without altering the current bindings, — as well as probably a
        number of other codepoints.

        Personally, I’d rather appreciate bindings to the single (‘ ’)
        and double (“ ”) quotation marks (which I’ve already bound to
        C-x 8 ' [, ] and C-x 8 " [, ] in my ~/.emacs.)

[1] http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt

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