On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 05:36:44PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > By the way, to all of the people threading on inputting other language > text: I was showing a loss from ASCII--you can't type all filenames > because some of them will have characters you can't necessarily type. > This was a minor point, since (as I've said) it can't really be fixed. > > (Well, it could be fixed, but not cleanly.)
I think the compose way is pretty clean. An point-and-click method would also be clean and the 9995 UCS method is pretty clean too, or what? > (NBSP isn't a problem here, since it can be copy-and-pasted.) or just typed in as alt-gr-space > > > Just like with the file ��������� I guess. Has that been a problem > > in practice so far? > > That can still be copy-and-pasted; the control character examples can not. > Overly combined characters probably couldn't, either. I have typed in most control characters with ctrl-v ctrl<letter in question> - no big deal. Kind regards keld -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
