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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> writes:

>> But there's also
>>
>> (eval-after-load "quail/PY-b5"
>>   '(quail-defrule "ling2" ?○ nil t))
>>
>> in leim-list.el...
>
> That's auto-added from leim-ext by 'make'.
>
>> And why are these things added anyway? The other ling2 things
>> (whatever they are) don't have these entries?
>
> I don't know why this particular addition is done this way, instead of
> adding it to the py-b5 definition directly. Maybe it was supposed to be
> more modular in case same thing would go in multiple similar input
> methods?

Yeah, the PY-b5 file starts with

;; Quail package `chinese-py-b5
;;   Generated by the command ‘titdic-convert’
;;      Original TIT dictionary file: PY-b5.tit

so I guess we want to keep that auto-generated, and then tweak the data
afterwards.

> Only Handa-san knows I guess... That's not the only strange
> thing about leim/quail in general and leim-ext in particular, but I
> didn't want to go there. (I just checked for other occurences of WHITE
> CIRCLE vs IDEOGRAPHIC ZERO, and tested my change.)

Thanks; I've now applied the patch, and I'm now closing this bug report.

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