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

[karl]

Simon Albrecht:
> On 22.01.2016 13:00, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> How should I (and James) interpret the silence here? Any more opinions?

I'd welcome this smallish addition.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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