On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:48:33AM -0500, Maiorana, Jason wrote: > > > >Characters that ought to be added: > > U2013 EN DASH > > U2014 EM DASH > > U2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK > > U2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK > > U201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK > > U201D RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK > > Does anyone else think that these should specifically NOT be on > keyboards? > Why not let the word processor turn regular dashes and quotes into these > as needed, and not make more points of failure on the keyboard...
Why not just have one parenthesis key, or one braket key, and let the word processor turn them into normal parentheses and brakets as needed? Why not let the word processor turn lower case characters into upper case characters as needed? It may happen that they are entered that way; but that’s for historical reasons, not because it would make a better system. The single quotes are the worst; how do you reliably convert “wait 'till they are clear, and run them 'thro a strainer”? I’ve seen a number of errors from Microsoft systems automatically doing the conversion, and it’s too closely related to the hard AI problem for me to think we’ll do much better. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom-- A field where a thousand corpses lie. -- Stephen Crane, "War is Kind" -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
