From: Dominikus Scherkl (lyratelle@gmx.de)
Date: Tue Sep 20 2005 - 04:42:54 CDT
> > But if it had not, Unicode would have probably been created
> > by encoding also the base characters AFTER the diacritics
> > instead of before them (the
>
> That is true.
>
> I remember moving from typewriter to mainframe, where I had
> to get used
> to having no deadkey, and having to devise the workaround of using
> forward slash '/' for acute, backward slash '\' for grave, etc.,
> AFTER the vowel.
I remember the old typewriter from my mother, which has a
grave/acute key that doesn't move the paper ("non-spacing"),
which made it very easy to type accented letters - but must
be entered _before_ the base
letter. I never got used to it, it's too unnatural to enter
the diacritic first. Still now I use very often use the
combination "baseletter - (grumble) - backspace - accent -
baseletter again"
-- Dominikus Scherkl XPaneon Technologies dscherkl@xpaneon.de Tel. 06023/9436-42>
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