Subject: Re: Accents
From: Phil Stracchino (alaric@babcom.com)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 15:48:11 CDT
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 11:41:31AM +0100, Tito Martinho wrote:
> Hi you all,
>
> I think the problem has to do with your "Regional Settings" in the
> Windows System. The problem is the type of keyboard (language) you have
> selected. Only languages supporting accents, like the Spanish or
> Portuguese languages, understands the characters with accents. For
> instance, in English there are no words using the ~ accent, or the ^
> accents, right?
If this is the case, it's completely boneheaded. You should always be
able to insert special characters that don't appear directly on your
keyboard. You shouldn't have to reconfigure your keyboard mapping to
Japanese, for example, in order to insert a price in yen into a document.
I believe you have the wrong explanation for the problem, because this
hypothesis assumes too much broken-by-design factor even for Microsoft.
-- Linux Now! ..........Because friends don't let friends use Microsoft. phil stracchino -- the renaissance man -- mystic zen biker geek Former vr00m: 1991 Honda VFR750F, foully murdered by a careless cager
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