Allegedly, on or about 6 February 2019, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
It's a question of basic usability. When I want to type an
"international" character, it would be nice to see how to do it
without having to root around in keyboard files. Accents are easy as
I use dead keys (áéíóúñ) but other things are harder, e.g. the
Spanish upside-down question mark which I can never remember how to
get. I'm frankly surprised that no-one seems to have brought this up
before.
I went with using the compose key, because of the lack of information
about which keys to use (as we're discussing - quick key show utility),
and I can usually figure out ways to type the usual culprits with the
compose key (because it picks on common typewriter symbols that look a
bit close to the accents you want to add to another character).
e.g. hit compose c then comma produces ç
hit compose ? then ? produces ¿
I'd seriously like to see a new style of keyboard which includes more
punctuation marks (dashes, proper quotes, different spaces, etc) on
dedicated keys.
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