Re: poor additions in quail/latin-ltx

[Dave Love]

Stefan <address@hidden> writes:

> I just find the symbols-as-hotkey to make more sense: after all, if you can
> generate the proper char (via an XIM input method, for example or by
> binding a key to the right keysym), you'll indeed get the same result, so it
> is not an abuse of the "hotkey".

I realize it's logical, but I don't like the resulting menu layout and
I don't think the logic helps the user.

> Maybe it's indeed easier for some people if the symbol is on the left-hand
> side rather than on the right-hand side (and inside parenthese), but
> I strongly suspect it's just a question of habit.

I think there's a cognitive reason, but I remember that only gerd's
brain seemed to work the same as mine in Emacs circles.

> I didn't know about that, but if he rejected maths-menu because of lack for
> non-ASCII support in the Lucid menu, he'd presumably not oppose a patch that
> adds support for non-ASCII support (and indeed he didn't oppose it).

The issue isn't non-ASCII per se.  That's always worked to a small
extent, e.g. the Latin-1 characters in the maths menu in my locale.
It's _multilingual_ text, i.e. being able to display arbitrary
characters independent of the locale.