Re: french-prefix input method

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 31 Jan 2002, David Kuehling wrote:

> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> 
> > On 30 Jan 2002, David Kuehling wrote:
> 
> >> In GNU Emacs 21.1.1, the input method `french-prefix' seems to have a
> >> bug. Whenever I type ", " (comma-space), that input is translated to
> >> "~"
> 
> > I don't see this on my machine.
> 
> Are you using a newer Emacs version?

I tested in the pretest of Emacs 21.2, but latin-pre.el didn't change 
in this area since 21.1 was released.

> Sorry, I searched for the file using "grep" and forgot to search the
> "leim" directory. The location of the problem seems thus to be
> `latin-pre.el', which defines the rule `(", " ?~)' after
> `(quail-define-package\n "french-prefix" ...)

Ah, yes.  I misunderstood you earlier: I thought you were talking about 
typing ",c" etc., not ", ".  I do see ", " produce "~".

However, it seems like it's done on purpose, and I'm not a French 
speaker, so I don't know why.

> But `iso-acc.el' has the same bug, though.

Yet another sign that this is some kind of feature.

> Another missing feature of the french-prefix input method is, that it
> doesn't accept the accent-aigu character ("´") of my german keyboard.

I'm not sure, but I think input methods deal with ASCII characters.  If 
your keyboard can produce non-ASCII characters directly, you might be 
better off with encoded keyboard (C-x RET k latin-1 RET) than with input 
methods.