On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 10:45 -0400, Pat Suwalski wrote: > My objection may seem silly, but since there is no way to type it on any > keyboard out there, that's a bit of a hindrance. Short of using the > character map and searching, one has to resolve to using "smart > substitution" editors like OpenOffice to get the characters.
There ought to be compose key sequences for the various types of quotation marks. According to the references I can find, Compose+<+" should give a curly left double quote, but it doesn't seem to work on my machine. The character map should *really* list the compose key sequence for a character in the Character Details tab. > They also tend to fail horribly when pasting into a non-Unicode > terminal, which is still often the case over SSH. Probably not a huge > desktop consideration, though. Every distribution I know of uses Unicode > by default on the local terminal at this point. This is indeed a problem. On numerous occasions, I've had to put away my "ssh && emacs -nw" and use gedit to open a remote file, because Unicode got garbled over the wire. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
