David Starner wrote on 2002-11-05 21:49 UTC:
As a Project Gutenberg volunteer, I've been submitting new texts in
Unicode, even those in English, to preserve what the author wrote.
Very sensible indeed!
Has anyone else made a 'more modern' English keyboard?
I too have my personal .Xmodmap
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
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
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 03:21:57PM +, Markus Kuhn wrote:
I too have my personal .Xmodmap file to get currently missing English
X11 keysyms such as
endash, emdash, nobreakspace, leftsinglequotemark, leftdoublequotemark,
rightsinglequotemark, rightdoublequotemark, degree, mu
It may happen that they are entered that way; but thatâs for historical
reasons, not because it would make a better system. The single quotes
are the worst; how do you reliably convert âwait 'till they are clear,
and run them 'thro a strainerâ? Iâve seen a number of errors from
