Subject: Re: bug#30988: 25.3; Cannot input capital sharp S using the input method german-prefix

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:12:47 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
>> Gmane-Reply-To-List: yes
>> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 10:07:44 +0200
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
>> 
>> > In general, what you can expect from an Emacs input method is shown
>> > when you type "C-h C-\ RET".  As you can see, this letter was not
>> > supported by the german-prefix and german-postfix input methods.  I
>> > now added it on the master branch.
>> 
>> Would it make sense to also add it to all the latin-* methods that
>> currently define a mapping for ß ?
>
> Which ones?  Sharp s is a German-only thing (AFAIK), so IMO it makes
> sense to add this only to input methods that specifically support the
> German language.

grep ß '*.el' gives:

czech.el:84: ("\\s" ?ß)
czech.el:88: ("\\S" ?ß)
czech.el:191: ("\\s" ?ß)
czech.el:195: ("\\S" ?ß)
czech.el:302: ("++s" ?ß)
czech.el:325: ("++S" ?ß)
czech.el:381: ("++s" ?ß)
czech.el:404: ("++S" ?ß)
czech.el:481: ("=S" ?ß)
czech.el:505: ("=s" ?ß)
latin-alt.el:126: ("s/" ?ß)
latin-alt.el:306: ("s/" ?ß)
latin-alt.el:493: ("s/" ?ß)
latin-alt.el:677: ("s/" ?ß)
latin-alt.el:856: ("s/" ?ß)
latin-alt.el:1520: ("s/" ?ß)
latin-ltx.el:166: ("\\ss" ?ß) ;; ("{\\ss}" ?ß)
latin-post.el:114: ("s/" ?ß)
latin-post.el:290: ("s/" ?ß)
latin-post.el:470: ("s/" ?ß)
latin-post.el:647: ("s/" ?ß)
latin-post.el:819: ("s/" ?ß)
latin-post.el:1105: ("sz" ?ß)
latin-post.el:1878: ("-" ?ß)
latin-post.el:2279: ("s/" ?ß)
latin-pre.el:122: ("\"s" ?ß)
latin-pre.el:374: ("\"s" ?ß)
latin-pre.el:563: ("\"s" ?ß)
latin-pre.el:670: ("\"s" ?ß)
latin-pre.el:896: ("\"s" ?ß)
latin-pre.el:1054: ("\"s" ?ß)
latin-pre.el:1186: ("\"s" ?ß)
rfc1345.el:134: ("&ss" ?ß)
slovak.el:102: ("=s" ?ß)
slovak.el:127: ("=S" ?ß)
slovak.el:199: ("[[[s" ?ß)
slovak.el:229: ("[[[S" ?ß)
slovak.el:297: ("=s" ?ß)
slovak.el:321: ("=S" ?ß)
slovak.el:375: ("[[[s" ?ß)
slovak.el:420: ("[[[S" ?ß)

although the Czech and Slovak mappings all map to the lower-case
version, not the upper case.

Robert