Philippe de Muyter wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 10:20:34PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > [...]
> > The default digraphs now correspond to RFC1345. Most are different from
> > what was used in Vim 5.x. Do we care about this incompatibility?

Seems like only yesterday :-).

> I only noticed that now, switching my linux distro to suse 10.3, and yes, I
> really care.  I am a french-speaking programmer, so I use a qwerty-us keyboard
> beacause it is much easier for programming, but I need sometimes to
> produce french texts.
> 
> Previously, I could use the CTRL-K combinations with ` (backquote or grave)
> to introduce grave accents, ^ (circumflex) for circumflex accents and " for
> diaeresis, juste like on a typing machine.
> 
> RFC1345 recommends :
> 
>       ! instead of ` for grave accent
>       > instead of ^ for circumflex accent
>       : instead of " for diaeresis
> 
> Frankly I do not understand why RFC1345 has choosen that.
> 
> I know I can add digraphs in .exrc, but it seems to me more logical to add
> the french-writing typist combinations directly in the default digraphs of 
> vim.
> 
> Of course, I do not ask for removal of the !, > and : sequences, only their
> duplications with their `, ^ and " counterparts.

It seems that we can add these digraphs without breaking the existing
ones.  Is there anything against adding something like a" for รค, which
you currently enter with a: ?

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