Re: coding systems and input methods are non-intuitive stuff

[Kevin Rodgers]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> C-x b *scratch* RET
> C-x RET f latin-1 RET          ; buffer coding system = latin-1
> C-u C-\ romanian-prefix RET    ; input method: romanian-prefix
> ,s                             ; character: ş (2362, #o4472, #x93a,
>                               ;   U+015F)
> <left> M-x quail-show-key RET  ; To input `ş', type ",s"
> <right>
> C-x RET f utf-8 RET            ; buffer coding system = utf-8
>                               ; input method: the same as before
> ,s                             ; character: ş (331903, #o1210177,
>                               ;   #x5107f, U+015F)
> <left> M-x quail-show-key RET  ; ş can't be input by the current
>                               ;   input method
>
> Now, I understand that the buffer code for these characters is not the
> same... but it is quite weird nonetheless to input a character with
> the current input method, and afterwards be told that it "can't be
> input by the current input method".

The thing that confuses me is that the ISO 8859-1 character set (which
is what the latin-1 coding system encodes, right?) only contains U+0000
- U+00FF.  So how does U+015F get inserted into a latin-1 buffer?

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA