On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:37:29PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 07:46:21PM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote: > > On Jan 10, 2009, at 8:41 AM, David Cantrell wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:46:12PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >> > >>> Fortunately, OS X comes with the built-in ability to turn Caps Lock > >>> into a > >>> modifier key. Unfortunately they felt the need to bury it under a > >>> button in > >>> the otherwise empty Keyboard preference. > >> > >> Unfortunately they also forgot to include any way of remapping the > >> rest > >> of the keyboard. It would be Really Handy for me to be able to press > >> Something-o to get the oe ligature, something-a to get the ae > >> ligature, > >> something-t for thorn, something-d for eth and so on. > > > > Why are there even separate characters for ligatures? Isn't this a > > display issue? Should a well-kerned 'AV' have its own ligature too? > > You can't globally turn "oe" into "Å". It's ok for words like amoeba > and oevre, but not for shoe or coed or photoelectric.
Looks like I probably picked the wrong coding for that email. Unicode, yet another hate.
