Re: text-replacements: add ä and the like (issue 281470043 by address@hidden)

[Simon Albrecht]

On 22.01.2016 11:12, David Kastrup wrote:
> Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On 22.01.2016 02:13, Dan Eble wrote:
> > > > text-replacements: add &auml; 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 &uuml; 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