bug#52173: `ś' character not available using `C-x 8'

[Tor Kringeland]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 04:08:54 +0100, Tor Kringeland 
>>>>>> <tor.a.s.kringeland@ntnu.no> said:
>
>     Tor> `ś' is a character used in /e.g./ Polish.  Currently `C-x 8 ' s' is 
> not
>     Tor> bound.  Could this be added (along with the capitalized variant)?
>
> I think you'd be better off using one of the two Polish input methods,
> theyʼre far more ergonomic than C-x 8
>
> If youʼre already using a different input method, you can extend it
> with bindings for the Polish characters youʼre interested in, eg
>
> (with-temp-buffer
>   (activate-input-method "latin-prefix") ;; the input method has to be 
> triggered for `quail-package-alist' to be non-nil
>   (let ((quail-current-package (assoc "latin-prefix" quail-package-alist)))
>    (quail-define-rules ((append . t))
>                        ("'s" ?ś))))
>
> Robert
> -- 

Thanks for the tip.

But when I'm writing with another input method, there comes up (not so
often) the need to write some Polish name like Skowroński (also nothing
for `C-x 8 ' n') or Kieślowski and it might be quicker to have the
key-binding rather than changing the input method (or extending it for
all the characters).  The same happens for other languages, like Czech,
where if you're writing a name with a `ž' it'd be faster to do something
like `C-x 8 v e' than to switch to a Czech input method.

I'm attaching a patch for `C-x 8' to include with Polish characters.
It's missing `ż', for which I cannot of a good key-binding for (`C-x 8 .'
is taken).  Any ideas?

Polish-characters-C-x_8.patch
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