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bug#3179: Entering Chinese "zero": add U+3007


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: bug#3179: Entering Chinese "zero": add U+3007
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 21:49:03 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> writes:

>> I have no idea what that means.  But there's:
>>
>> (eval-after-load "quail/PY-b5"
>>   '(quail-defrule "ling2" ?○ nil t))
>>
>> which has apparently been in Emacs ever since leim-ext.el was added.
>
> Checking the commit history, the file was originally encoded in iso-2022
> and I have no idea what "0!r" in that encoding amounts to, but in any
> case, U+3007 is the standard way to write ideographic zero. Various
> other similar-looking glyphs (in various encodings) can be found in its
> place occasionally[1], but in this day and age I see no reason to
> encourage that practice (so I suggest "instead", not "in addition" is
> the way to go above).

OK; if you think that's the right thing to do, could you fix up the
quail rules here?  I know nothing about LEIM/Quail/etc, so I don't dare
touch those bits.  :-)

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