Re: [PATCH] UTF-8 input: composing non-latin1 characters, and copy-paste

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>]

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>> argument. This means that only characters present in Latin-1 (i.e., with 
>> codes <256) can be produced by composing while the keyboard is in 
>> Unicode mode. This is certainly unacceptable for Eastern Europe (i.e., 
>> former ISO-8859-2 users) who need to get ^+ Z = Ž.
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>Its not useful for most of Western europe either nowdays.

As far as I can follow...

I don't think so. I have set my keyboard to US, but I regularly require 
<Compose><"><a> and such to generate Umlauts and Eszet. Now, ä is present 
in ISO-8859-1/15, but what if it were not?


Jan Engelhardt
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