On 22.01.2016 11:12, David Kastrup wrote:
Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> 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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