Re: composed characters question and suggestions for?quail-cyrillic-*

[Teemu Likonen]

James Cloos wrote:

> I’m thinking of adding:
> 
> <Multi_key> <period> <1> : "․" U2024 # ONE DOT LEADER
> <Multi_key> <period> <2> : "‥" U2025 # TWO DOT LEADER
> <Multi_key> <period> <3> : "…" ellipsis # HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
> 
> to the UTF-8 Compose.pre files.  The X11 compose framework converts
> the compose sequence to a string (rather than a character), so I could
> also have <Multi_key> <period> <period> insert ". . ." rather than
> "…", so I could make it match the proposed change to Emacs.  I'll have
> to give that some thought.

Just FYI: HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS has been added to libX11, though I'm not
sure if it's in any released version yet. The key sequence is this:

<Multi_key> <period> <period> : "…" ellipsis # HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS

See the relevant commit in libX11's Git repository:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=b0a8f2ec4ba698841683f8ce389f9d72e6bce53e

(You can click the diffstat for file nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre .)