Re: Writting Greek in Emacs

[Thanos Apollo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:


[...]
>
> Again, why is it our problem?  If the user wants to have this sequence
> for some reason, it is up to the user to select the font that displays
> this properly.  Emacs has no business preventing users from typing
> nonsensical sequences of codepoints.
>

Because it does not make linguistic sense, similarly to Spanish input
methods which AFAIK does not allow for multiple acute accents (acento
agudo, á) on a single letter.  I understand that Emacs has no business
preventing users from typing nonsensical keys in Greek, but those 
keys/characters
should exist in the Greek language.  The current implementation of "greek"
input method does not allow for stacking accents either.

[...]
> I'm not sure this is related.  As I wrote, it is okay for the input
> method not to support more than one tonos following a base character.
> But that does not (and should not) prevent the user from typing as
> many tonos accents as he/she pleases by other means.  The only
> requirement from Emacs is not to crash as result of displaying such
> sequences.

Polytonic input methods have hard coded accent combinations.
Combinations of accents have specific keybinding e.g "M-Shift-q" + a for
oxia and ypogegrameni with α (e.g ᾴ).  Which btw I'm not sure how I can
replicate in quail.


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