On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:50:36PM +0100, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> 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?
> >>
> >
> >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 guess: because more national keyboards have them, and/or they are more
> consistent with the rest, like ( for breve, < for caron (as on the initial
> C in the Czech version of the adjective "Czech"), etc.: in many cases, the
> 2nd part of the digraph moves 90° up to get above the first part, rotating
> all the while. One exception is - (macron) which doesn't rotate, but in
> this case it didn't strike me as weird when I first needed it.
>
> I don't understand why you believe that "a us-qwerty keyboard is much
> easier for programming", but, well, there's no reckoning with individual
> tastes.
The characters [ ] { } ~ | and \ are really more accessible on a qwerty-us
than on an azerty-be keyboard.
> (I have a Belgian AZERTY keyboard and I like the way it satisfies
> my needs, both for programming and for text writing in almost every
> Latin-alphabet language except Hungarian.)
Of course, you don't miss the "natural" combinations for e`, a`, u`, o^
and e^ then.
Best regards
Philippe De Muyter
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