On Mar 30, 2017, at 8:34 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote: > I don’t think it’s fair to notable Fossil users like Jörg Sonnenberger that > we misspell their names simply because we refuse to give up ASCII-centrism. > > OTOH, Joerg can't (IMO!) expect the majority to change keyboard mappings or > use app/OS-specific voodoo to type his name.
That’s an OS usability issue, not a Unicode issue. OS X solved this problem beautifully about the same time nvi and Vim were getting proper Unicode support. From my US-English keyboard, I can type most common Western language accents and special characters — including £ — with some simple, easy to learn shortcuts. (£ is Opt-3, and the em dashes are Shift-Opt-Hyphen. Much nicer than Windows’ Alt-CODE scheme or Ubuntu’s even worse Ctrl-Shift-U-CODE scheme.) For the less common characters, recent versions of OS X let you hold down the character nearest in form to what you mean to type (e.g. ‘o’ to get ó, ø, ö, etc.) to get a palette of variants on that character. (If you have an iOS device, you may have seen this; OS X got it later.) And if all else is lost, Cmd-Ctrl-Space brings up a palette with the same effect as Windows’ separate Character Map tool, but much easier to use. Solutions are available, if you go looking. (And I don’t mean “switch to macOS” here. But you’d be welcome if you did.) _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
