<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 9:22 AM David Carlisle <<a href="mailto:d.p.carlisle@gmail.com">d.p.carlisle@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>with a standard UK keyboard for example, it's much easier to type
<code>\’a</code> and --- than
<code>á</code> and
— <br></div><div><br></div><div>David</div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Not by any stretch of the definition of the term "ergonomically difficult": \'a requires 3 keystrokes, á requires 2, on the standard UK keyboard. On an absolute majority of keyboard types - it is just 1 keystroke.</div><div><br></div><div>There will always be a need for pidgin-codes for entering special characters like ---, after all, the keyboard of the Linotype was a lot bigger than a normal modern keyboard, but there is no need for any special input for accented letters -- this has been completely resolved by standardization of keyboards.</div><div><br></div><div>Paulo Ney</div></div></div>