bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] C-x 8 shorthands for curved quotes, Euro, etc.

[Stefan Monnier]

>> … Also, did you consider generating this list automatically,
>> based on the codepoint properties already known to Emacs?
[...]
> Sorry, I don't really follow the code that you attached.  Although I suppose
> it comes from a decomposition table, I don't know what the table was
> designed for, and it's not clear to me how it's relevant.  Anyway, most of

I'm not sure exactly what he wanted to say, but it sounds to me like
it's going in the same direction as my earlier request to replace the
hard-coded table by code that auto-generates the cases.
There is already similar code in latin-ltx.el (written by yours truly).


        Stefan