Re: Writting Greek in Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Thanos Apollo <public@thanosapollo.org>
> Cc: maciaschain@posteo.net, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2024 23:03:21 +0300
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > It could make sense to have a separate Coptic input method.  The fact
> > that Greek and Coptic use the same script doesn't mean a single input
> > method must support both.  Emacs input methods are specific to
> > languages, not to scripts (i.e. Unicode blocks).
> 
> Some input methods want to support a mix of both with the addition of
> latin characters, others also include japanese characters.  There is
> nothing wrong with that, I'm just stating why they should not be
> regarded as greek-polytonic.
> 
> Most input methods in greek.el except "greek" do not really want to be
> Greek but a mixture of different things + Greek to support their authors
> use case.  There is no need to change them since they serve their
> purpose just fine.

I proposed to consider having a separate input method for Coptic
because I understood your comments about that as meaning that having
both Coptic and Greek in the same input method causes technical
difficulties that might be hard to resolve.  If there's no problem
having both languages supported by a single input method, there's no
problem to do that, either.  We already have similar multi-lingual
support in input methods like latin-*.

> I'm just trying to help, if I didn't I wouldn't spent any time trying to
> explain the current issues & trying to provide solutions.

Your comments and help are very much appreciated, thank you.