Re: not quite understanding input methods

[Yuri Khan]

On Wed, 1 Sept 2021 at 14:25, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> wrote:

> > Blunt question: Are you trying to solve this to get a better
> > understanding of the Emacs input subsystem (in which case please
> > ignore this), or do you just want something done? Because, if you want
> > Compose, it’s right there almost out-of-the-box in XKB.
>
> Emacs 28 has the input method "Compose" corresponding to XKB's Compose
> in leim/quail/compose.el, but many useful key sequences in this
> input method don't work because of the artificial limitation
> to ASCII-only chars in read_char.

My point (which some will find offensive) is that maybe one doesn’t
need to implement input methods in Emacs.

If you have Compose in Emacs, it works in Emacs. If you have Compose
in XKB, it works across your whole desktop.