Re: Emacs 21/22: french ç and œ

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> -  ispell does not know how do spell this word sœur
>> Not sure what's going on with it, but œ was somehow left out from
>> latin-1 (although it did make it into latin-9, aka "latin-1 with euro
>> sign").  So all places where it causes problems were probably written
>> back in the latin-1 days.

> So do you agree to include it in french-postfix/prefix?

Of course.

> As for ispell: I am not sure whether this can be solved on the level of
> lisp or whether somehow the ispell code itself has to be modified.

That I don't know.  If we use latin-1 to communicatr with ispell, then
we need to check that it's indeed correct (maybe ispell expects
latin-9).  If ispell indeed expects latin-1, then the problem is
in ispell.


        Stefan