libX11: Changes to 'master'

Pander pander at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Mar 22 08:36:27 PDT 2012


On 2012-03-20 19:02, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 20 March 2012 17:55, Pander <pander at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> On 2012-03-20 16:41, Julien Cristau wrote:
>>> Then let's make it consistent by only having one of the orders for new
>>> sequences.  Over time people will get the order that actually works in
>>> muscle memory, we won't have so many duplicate sequences that make it
>>> impossible to ever add new ones for new symbols, everyone wins.
>>
>> I completely agree on this policy for new series of sequences.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Since this concerns an existing conflict and not a new sequence, I hope
>> you see the international value of resolving this to map <o>
>> <apostrophe> to ó. This will result truly in a win-win situatión with
>> the same compose sequences for all users of X, including GNOME.
> 
> I completely agree; I'm struggling to think of a single use for å with
> a combining acute accent, whereas ó is a character people actually
> use.  A lot.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel

Thanks. And alternative sequnces to create å with a combining acute
accent remain in tact.

James, Julien, did you receive enough compelling arguments to resolve
this conflict so that <o> <apostrophe> results in ó. Then we can finally
close the book on gtk+/GNOME conflicts.

Best regards,

Pander

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