On Dec 3, 2008, at 2:09 PM, David Blanton wrote:

I searched the archives and found no useful information on how to remove the Special Characters menu item from the edit menu.

I want to remove this item ... is removing this item a good or bad practice? If bad, why?

I can't make any appeal to authority, but I can say that I personally find it a bad choice in most situations.

If your app allows the entry of any relatively unconstrained text by the user, then the user may have many reasons for wanting to enter special characters. That menu item is the most direct way to do that. (By "constrained" I mean, for example, a phone number or other purely numeric input. Or, I don't know, DNA sequences where only ATGC are legal.)

Why would you want to frustrate your users?

Regards,
Ken

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