Hi, I discovered today, after upgrading the X.org packages that there was no way of writing "São Paulo" which is a quite usual city name. It's not that I write in Portuguese that often, but since Brazil is the largest economy in the region, you'll imagine that there's a lot of communication with them.
I find the explanations about complicating shell usage irrelevant: both slashes (/ and \), apostrophes and backticks are dead keys or need combinations (while in US layout they don't), and are way more needed that the tilde in shell usage. Making a poll is not useful nor representative, just think about the population that uses the latam layout (latin-americans, supposedly excluding brazilians), and you'll find that all those people have a very big neighbour which speaks Portuguese. If the latam layout doesn't support Portuguese, why don't we call it just Spanish? Please, give us at least ONE dead tilde. Three non-deads doesn't have any sense. And no, using compose + alt-gr + ñ + a is not an option for a single char. -- Martín Ferrari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
