[PATCH] nls: Switch one of the interrobang sequences to gnaborretni

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Thu Jul 29 08:43:18 PDT 2010


Since gnaborretni is primarily used in LTR locales, the ? part of the
sequence reflects the position of the bulge in the ?.  When scanning an
inverted interrobang left-to-right, you see the bulge first, so the
compose sequence ?! is used; upright interrobang shows the bulge
last, so it's !?.

This is a change in behaviour, but I was unable to come up with anything
better.  ??!! or !!?? would match the patterns for ¿ and ¡, but they
would delay evaluation of them; "¿Qué?" wouldn't show the ¿ until you hit
Q.  Likewise ?!?! and !?!? would delay showing the interrobang itself.
~!? and ~?! were considered but are arguably less intuitive.

Signed-off-by: Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>
---
 nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre b/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre
index c4e0ab5..f38e15d 100644
--- a/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre
+++ b/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ XCOMM Other symbols
 <Multi_key> <Cyrillic_EN> <Cyrillic_o>	: "№" numerosign # NUMERO SIGN
 <Multi_key> <Cyrillic_EN> <Cyrillic_O>	: "№" numerosign # NUMERO SIGN
 
-<Multi_key> <question> <exclam>         : "‽"   U203D # INTERROBANG
+<Multi_key> <question> <exclam>         : "⸘"   U2E18 # INVERTED INTERROBANG
 <Multi_key> <exclam> <question>         : "‽"   U203D # INTERROBANG
 
 <Multi_key> <C> <C> <C> <P>             : "☭"   U262D # HAMMER AND SICKLE
-- 
1.7.2



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