https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50296
--- Comment #31 from Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> --- Just for reference: Either I didn't read all the comments well enough or nobody quite mentioned the fact that all modern desktop operating environments have a built-in a Character Map tool: Windows (with pretty full Unicode since NT 4), Gnome, KDE, and Mac OSX (called "Character viewer"). That said, I am very well aware of the fact that pretty much nobody but me actually uses it. A very surprising number of people, however, do use the character insertion tool in their word processors. The one in Microsoft Word is not very different from Windows' Character Map, which in my mind makes it redundant, but apparently I'm special. Anyway, yes - a character insertion tool should be there. But, two points: 1. There's one already in Vector, and it's quite good. It can be used for research - which characters are used most frequently in which project. Adding statistics for this is quite easy now with EventLogging. 2. It may be easier to insert at least some characters using the keyboard layout provided with ULS. It is disabled now in VE because of some bugs (can anybody help me with the numbers?), but these can be fixed, of course. If we know which characters are really needed (see point 1 above), we can very easily add them to the keyboard layouts. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
