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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Apr 23 19:38:25 +0000 2008 ------- There's no sign in sight one would have to worry about a configuration nightmare, at least as far as Windows is concerned. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but the chances of Windows getting a global ability of *easily* typing any manner of characters any time soon, look exceedingly remote. It would probably have to go FOSS before that happens. Apart from this, with all the characters possible in e. g. UTF8, there would always be a large amount of characters that wouldn't be practicable to access with keyboard combos without switching keyboard layout. So the bug would still stand, it seems. Switching keyboard layouts (yes, it's possible in Windows - if an Admin/root has installed the corresponding language packs, activated this that and whatnot etc.) and then dealing with unfamiliar key placements, is precisely what fixing this bug would help us avoid. Since no really useful *standard* solution seems to exist for at least Windows (no, using Windows Charmap just isn't practical enough, and there most probably are no other *standard* solutions), it has to be solved some other way. As for missing features between apps - that happens all the time. Just take having to use different spellcheck dictionaries for different apps, forcing you to duplicate and triplicate work. Sad, but hard to avoid unless all the involved app makers and the OS makers start talking to each others and standardize. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
