On Sun Apr 17 2005 Richard Stallman wrote: > It does not surprise me that it isn't maintained. But if you want a > feature like this, it seems to me you may as well maintain and extend > iso-cvt.el rather than write something new.
I think that it's an important aspect of this problem that iso-cvt.el was written in pre-unicode times. There is rather little I know about unicode. But iso-cvt.el uses ten different translation tables only to translate between different `representaions' of ISO 8859-1 characters. Therefore, I expect it would be very difficult to use the same general scheme with more language environments and coding systems. Furthermore, iso-cvt.el uses a rather conventional approach that is full of redundancies. I expect that it would be possible to implement these things in a much more efficient and more easily customizable way. It would also be very nice if one could combine these things with different input methods. I wish I had more time for these things. But currently maintaining BibTeX mode is all I can do. Roland _______________________________________________ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list Emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
