Lewis
Fri, 05 Jan 2018 20:50:54
GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:
In message Diesel
wrote:
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Thu, 04 Jan 2018
04:47:49 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:
needing to use the numeric keypad to those characters is a
windows shortcoming.
A windows shortcoming? You don't actually need to use the numeric
keypad, you do have other ways of selecting the extended ascii
characters if one so desired. But the point remains, what normal
user is going to search for characters that aren't shown on their
keyboards?
Zoë, Chloë, Anton*a, and the billions of people who don't speak
English.
for example:
option-g ©
option-2
option-p ¼
Okay, so you can press two keys instead when if using the alt
method on Windows, I have to press a total of four.
And you have to memorize that 0163 means something and 1064 means
something entirely different.
option-e + a vowel puts an accute accent on the vowel. Option-u
plus a vowel puts ü over the vowel. So I don't have to remember a
different 4 digit code for ë and ü and ö.
Alt and the
corresponding keycode representing the ascii character.
Which is an idiotic UI.
It wasn't invented with Windows. Again, it predates Windows and isn't
the only manner of doing it.
For me, I can bring up a simple 'chart' to see all the characters
along with their corresponding codes, so I don't have to memorize
each option+character to do it.
Yeah, that's a great solution. Bring up a chart.
People who write code or design web pages without the use of 'do it
all for you, you just draw pretty pictures' are used to doing this.
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