> > This looks nuts! Many of us have no convenient (or any) access to
> > characters like this. I can do some of them in a word-proceesor, but
> > certainly not in e-mail or Google, etc. Whose dumb idea was this,
> > anyway?
>
> But I can, and so can all or most of my compatriots. Remember I was
> talking about the .es top domain name.
>
> See: áéíóúàèìòùâêîôûäëïöüñÁÉÍÓÚÀÈÌÒÙÄËÏÖÜÂÊÎÔÛçÇñÑ
> and more: ćǵḱĺḿńṕŕśẃź
I can understand why people would want these localized characters in
their domain names. It totally makes sense from a localization
aspect.
On the other hand, I also really sympathize the frustration Doug expressed.
There may be a Compose key somewhere... but I've never heard of it
used it... being basically monolingual, with just enough knowledge of
Dutch, German and Spanish to get myself into trouble, I haven't
"needed" a Compose key, and I suspect the vast majority haven't
either. It might be a very good idea that this is enabled by default
in .Xmodmap (if it isn't already? I'm not at home right now so can't
check to see if Carlos' instructions work for me) and that this is
clearly documented somewhere (ie keystrokes for the different chars).
If we can make it clear that typing these chars is relatively easy to
do, this might ease the pain of the transition a little....
C.
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