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Re: text-replacements: add ä and the like (issue 281470043 by addre
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karl |
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Re: text-replacements: add ä and the like (issue 281470043 by address@hidden) |
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Mon, 25 Jan 2016 21:24:44 +0100 (CET) |
Simon Albrecht:
> On 22.01.2016 13:00, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> > 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.
>
> How should I (and James) interpret the silence here? Any more opinions?
I'd welcome this smallish addition.
Regards,
/Karl Hammar
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- text-replacements: add ä and the like (issue 281470043 by address@hidden), simon . albrecht, 2016/01/21
- Re: text-replacements: add ä and the like (issue 281470043 by address@hidden), Dan Eble, 2016/01/21
- Re: text-replacements: add ä and the like (issue 281470043 by address@hidden), Simon Albrecht, 2016/01/22
- Re: text-replacements: add ä and the like (issue 281470043 by address@hidden), David Kastrup, 2016/01/22
- Re: text-replacements: add ä and the like (issue 281470043 by address@hidden), Simon Albrecht, 2016/01/22
- Re: text-replacements: add ä and the like (issue 281470043 by address@hidden), Simon Albrecht, 2016/01/25
- Re: text-replacements: add ä and the like (issue 281470043 by address@hidden),
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- Re: text-replacements: add ä and the like (issue 281470043 by address@hidden), Knut Petersen, 2016/01/26
- Re: text-replacements: add ä and the like (issue 281470043 by address@hidden), Paul Morris, 2016/01/26
- Re: text-replacements: add ä and the like (issue 281470043 address@hidden), Trevor Daniels, 2016/01/26
- Re: text-replacements: add ä and the like (issue 281470043 address@hidden), Urs Liska, 2016/01/26