Re: Gnu yes, donkey no ?

[Lewis Perin]

Roger Price <roger@rogerprice.org> writes:

>I'm unable to enter the simplified chinese character 驴 (a donkey) as
>lu:2 [1] using Emacs input method chinese-tonepy-punct. The workaround
>is to use lu:5 which is not very correct.
>
>C-h C-a reports "This is GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, X
>toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2010-04-01 on build17"
>
>I set the input method using set-input-method 'chinese-tonepy-punct
>which gives me the mode line indicator 拼符.
>
>The poor donkey is not as impressive as a gnu, but a useful
>animal. Why can't he have his lu:2?

Hmm, I can’t even find him in that remote lu:5 pasture, and I’m using
“GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-unknown-netbsdelf5.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2010-07-30 on youdont.needtoknow.com”.

All kidding aside, it isn’t unusual for me to fail to find a character
in this input method.

/Lew
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