Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 00/40] Use ASCII subset instead of UTF-8 alternate symbols | From | Edward Cree <> | Date | Fri, 14 May 2021 12:08:36 +0100 |
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> On Fri, 2021-05-14 at 10:21 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >> I do use a lot of UTF-8 here, as I type texts in Portuguese, but I rely >> on the US-intl keyboard settings, that allow me to type as "'a" for á. >> However, there's no shortcut for non-Latin UTF-codes, as far as I know. >> >> So, if would need to type a curly comma on the text editors I normally >> use for development (vim, nano, kate), I would need to cut-and-paste >> it from somewhere
For anyone who doesn't know about it: X has this wonderful thing called the Compose key[1]. For instance, type ⎄--- to get —, or ⎄<" for “. Much more mnemonic than Unicode codepoints; and you can extend it with user-defined sequences in your ~/.XCompose file. (I assume Wayland supports all this too, but don't know the details.)
On 14/05/2021 10:06, David Woodhouse wrote: > Again, if you want to make specific fixes like removing non-breaking > spaces and byte order marks, with specific reasons, then those make > sense. But it's got very little to do with UTF-8 and how easy it is to > type them. And the excuse you've put in the commit comment for your > patches is utterly bogus.
+1
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key
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