Subject: Re: bug#36717: 25.3; greek.el: deprecated vowel+oxia combinations should be replaced with vowel+tonos counterparts

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:26:57 +0200

>>>>> On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 10:58:24 +0200, Robert Alessi <[email-masked]> said:

    Robert> Robert, Basil and Eli: since assigning vowels with tonos and vowels
    Robert> with oxia to the same code points is clearly unacceptable even if the
    Robert> glyphs may be identical, is there a way to input tonos and vowels with
    Robert> tonos with emacs?  I use greek-ibycus4, but if other input methods
    Robert> can handle these letters, I would consider any change unnecessary.

1. You can locally derive an input method from greek-ibycus4, and
replace the entries for letter + oxia with letter with tonos (or we
can make that change in emacs)

2. Same, but we allow for entering both variants, so that eg

i' => iota with oxia
i; => iota with tonos (this is how eg greek-postfix does it)

3. You change input methods betweend greek-ibycus4 and greek postfix,
enter the character + tonos using i;, then switch back

4. Last resort: enter the required character directly using

C-x 8 RET 3af
or
C-x 8 RET GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS

Iʼd probably lean towards [2], but a purist might says that weʼre
polluting an input method intended for classical greek with a 'modern'
set of characters. OTOH Unicode seems to say that we should be using
the tonos variants anyway.

Robert