Re: adding consistent extra symbols to input methods (cyrillic-*, croatian-*, slov*, czech-* etc.) input methods

[Juri Linkov]

>> and ~5000 other rules for many Unicode characters.
>>
>> Do you know a better method to input Unicode characters?
>
> rfc1345 isn't too bad.  It also uses mnemonics to a degree (though they
> are often kind of weird), and has pretty good coverage.

I noticed rfc1345 is already implemented in leim/quail/rfc1345.el.

BTW, this file is detected as binary.  I think it's better to replace
non-printable control characters with equivalent text-only notations:

Index: leim/quail/rfc1345.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/leim/quail/rfc1345.el,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -a -r1.11 rfc1345.el
--- leim/quail/rfc1345.el       7 May 2008 03:37:06 -0000       1.11
+++ leim/quail/rfc1345.el       10 Jul 2008 00:08:43 -0000
@@ -37,38 +37,38 @@
 
 (quail-define-rules
 ;; There doesn't seem to be any point in including ASCII.
-;;  ("&NU" ?\)
-;;  ("&SH" ?\
)
-;;  ("&SX" ?\)
-;;  ("&EX" ?\)
-;;  ("&ET" ?\)
-;;  ("&EQ" ?\)
-;;  ("&AK" ?\)
-;;  ("&BL" ?\)
-;;  ("&BS" ?\)
+;;  ("&NU" ?\^@)
+;;  ("&SH" ?\^A)
+;;  ("&SX" ?\^B)
+;;  ("&EX" ?\^C)
+;;  ("&ET" ?\^D)
+;;  ("&EQ" ?\^E)
+;;  ("&AK" ?\^F)
+;;  ("&BL" ?\^G)
+;;  ("&BS" ?\^H)
 ;;  ("&HT" 9)
 ;;  ("&LF" 10)
-;;  ("&VT" ?\)
-;;  ("&FF" ?\)
+;;  ("&VT" ?\^K)
+;;  ("&FF" ?\^L)
 ;;  ("&CR" 13)
-;;  ("&SO" ?\)
-;;  ("&SI" ?\)
-;;  ("&DL" ?\)
-;;  ("&D1" ?\)
-;;  ("&D2" ?\)
-;;  ("&D3" ?\)
-;;  ("&D4" ?\)
-;;  ("&NK" ?\)
-;;  ("&SY" ?\)
-;;  ("&EB" ?\)
-;;  ("&CN" ?\)
-;;  ("&EM" ?\)
+;;  ("&SO" ?\^N)
+;;  ("&SI" ?\^O)
+;;  ("&DL" ?\^P)
+;;  ("&D1" ?\^Q)
+;;  ("&D2" ?\^R)
+;;  ("&D3" ?\^S)
+;;  ("&D4" ?\^T)
+;;  ("&NK" ?\^U)
+;;  ("&SY" ?\^V)
+;;  ("&EB" ?\^W)
+;;  ("&CN" ?\^X)
+;;  ("&EM" ?\^Y)
 ;;  ("&SB" ?\032)  ; ^Z in a file causes trouble on MS systems.
-;;  ("&EC" ?\)
-;;  ("&FS" ?\)
-;;  ("&GS" ?\)
-;;  ("&RS" ?\)
-;;  ("&US" ?\)
+;;  ("&EC" ?\033)
+;;  ("&FS" ?\034)
+;;  ("&GS" ?\035)
+;;  ("&RS" ?\036)
+;;  ("&US" ?\037)
 ;;  ("&SP" ?\ )
 ;;  ("&!" ?\!)
 ;;  ("&\"" ?\")


-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/