David Starner wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:29:40PM -0500, Henry Spencer wrote: > > Unfortunately, getting it onto keyboards won't get it programmed into > > users' fingers. The real answer to this one, I'm afraid, has to be in the > > software, not in the keyboards. People *will* go on typing the same > > character for hyphen, dash, and minus. Even if all three showed up on the > > keycaps (not just as mystical shift-alt-meta combinations), which would be > > much harder to arrange, it wouldn't have the desired effect until a new > > generation of users grew up. The software is just going to have to get > > smarter about how it renders what the user types. > > I once tried to type a short document with some light mathematical > content in WordPerfect. I told it "The square root of -1 is i". It > displayed "The square root of -1 is I". Not being able to mess with the > options (this being a library machine), I gave up.
I've had that happen too, although with Word, and with IPA transcription. I just deleted "i" -> "I" from the Autocorrect list (which is otherwise useful for changing "teh" -> "the", defining sequences for rare symbols, etc). Thomas Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
