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From: | Simon Albrecht |
Subject: | Re: text-replacements: add ä and the like (issue 281470043 by address@hidden) |
Date: | Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:00:13 +0100 |
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On 22.01.2016 11:12, David Kastrup wrote:
Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:On 22.01.2016 02:13, Dan Eble wrote:text-replacements: add ä and the like Provides aliases auml,Auml,ouml,Ouml,uuml,Uuml They were wanted by a user, so why not provide them?I don’t want my observation to hold back this change if everyone else likes it, but this looks like a slippery slope.What’s the danger that you see?There is a whole lot of character entities in Unicode. Several hundreds of thousands I think.
Of course, but 99,9% of them are much less common than äöü. The current set provided seems somewhat arbitrary anyway.
The alternative would be to deprecate using this input method.Why?
Well, if a user wants to use ä in his lyrics, but there is no text-replacements alias, then text-replacements won’t be an option anymore. Currently, it’s in no usable state for languages like Swedish and German. And if somebody without ü on their keyboard wants to type in German lyrics, then ü is probably the easiest way to get it, unless they use an IDE like Frescobaldi, with a ‘Special characters’ panel, where it might only require one click. But then they wouldn’t need text-replacements anyway.
Yours, Simon
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