Re: duplicate input methods: german-postfix and german-alt-postfix

[Andreas Schwab]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> In article <address@hidden>, Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> the input methods german-postfix and german-alt-postfix are completely
>> identical, AFAICS.
>
>> I think it's confusing.  I'd suggest to either remove
>> german-alt-postfix (keep it as comment it in leim/quail/latin-alt.el?)
>> or add "identical to german-postfix" in the documentation of
>> german-alt-postfix.
>
>> BTW, my impression is that `latin-alt.el' was derived from
>> `latin-post.el' and modifications to most languages (input methods)
>> were changed, but german wasn't.  Is this historically correct?  Just
>> curious...
>
> I've found many other input methods (e.g. danish-postfix vs
> danish-alt-postfix) are the same.

None of these input methods use the problematic characters as postfix.

Andreas.

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