Re: C-x 8 s s -> ess-tsett

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Kevin Rodgers wrote:

> > To get ß, type C-x 8 " s.  That is, act as if ess-tzett were an s with a
> > diaeresis.
> 
> Yes, but shouldn't ("ss"  . iso-transl-ss) be in iso-transl-char-map?

I don't know; it might actually get in your way, since "ss" is a
frequent combination.  (To say nothing of the New German Orthography
rules, which _want_ you to write two `s' literally.)

> Not
> to mention, why is iso-transl-ss not called iso-transl-sz, with an "sz"
> entry in the map?

I think -ss is a more natural name, but I'm not the author of
iso-transl.

> It also seems to me that the unaccented letters like D-stroke, THORN,
> d-stroke, and thorn should have "*" as their prefix character instead of
> "~".

Feel free to submit a change.