Nikolaus Rath writes:
>> How dare you write ... instead of the proper … :-P
>
> I'm curious, how do you type that in conviently? I hope it's not copying
> and pasting from a template file, and remembering (and/or finding out)
> the X11 Compose sequence seems cumbersome too.
I see that you have g
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 07:50:56AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > : "…" U2026 #
> > HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
>
> That's a bad idea as another default combination is a prefix of that:
>which gets you... "…" (U+2026).
It just means that
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 03:17:58PM +, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote:
> > I wouldn't now of any real typographical use of the MIDDLE DOT.
>
> It's a proper, traditional decimal point, isn't it, as taught in
> British primary schools and still the normal way of doing a decimal
> point in handwritin
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 07:50:56AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> >
> > I'm curious, how do you type that in conviently?
>
> Just to give an additional option which no one else seems to have used:
>
> If you map a key to Multi_key, and have ~/.XCompose (or your system-wide
> compose file) suitabl
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> > How dare you write ... instead of the proper … :-P
>
> I'm curious, how do you type that in conviently?
Just to give an additional option which no one else seems to have used:
If you map a key to Multi_key, and have ~/.XCompose (or your system-wide
c
> I wouldn't now of any real typographical use of the MIDDLE DOT.
It's a proper, traditional decimal point, isn't it, as taught in
British primary schools and still the normal way of doing a decimal
point in handwriting when there are no technological obstacles?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inte
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:32:32PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
...
> It should be noted for those who seems to accuse me of bad faith, that
> I, personally, use a custom keymapping anyway,... so I don't care much
> whether it's left as is or not.
Just for the record, I am not accusing y
Quoting Benjamin Drung (2015-02-12 12:25:06)
> Am Mittwoch, den 11.02.2015, 21:15 -0800 schrieb Nikolaus Rath:
> > I'm curious, how do you type that in conviently? I hope it's not copying
> > and pasting from a template file, and remembering (and/or finding out) the
> > X11 Compose sequence seems c
[ ⏰ 12/02/2015 06:15 ] [ ✎ Nikolaus Rath ]
>> How dare you write ... instead of the proper … :-P
> I'm curious, how do you type that in conviently? I hope it's not copying
> and pasting from a template file, and remembering (and/or finding out)
> the X11 Compose sequence seems cumbersome too.
>
> B
Am Mittwoch, den 11.02.2015, 21:15 -0800 schrieb Nikolaus Rath:
> > How dare you write ... instead of the proper … :-P
>
> I'm curious, how do you type that in conviently? I hope it's not copying
> and pasting from a template file, and remembering (and/or finding out)
> the X11 Compose sequence se
Nikolaus Rath writes:
> I'm curious, how do you type that [U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS] in
> conviently?
GNOME and KDE have the IBus [0] “input method engine”, IME. GNOME by
default presents the IBus input method manager for allowing the user to
select different input methods.
An “input method”
> How dare you write ... instead of the proper … :-P
I'm curious, how do you type that in conviently? I hope it's not copying
and pasting from a template file, and remembering (and/or finding out)
the X11 Compose sequence seems cumbersome too.
Best,
-Nikolaus
--
GPG encrypted emails preferred.
Quoting Joachim Breitner (2015-02-12 00:23:13)
> Am Mittwoch, den 11.02.2015, 23:32 +0100 schrieb Christoph Anton
> Mitterer:
>> Anyway, to finally end this ugly matter on the Debian side, I've
>> forwarded the pointer about this possible issue upstream, so that
>> they can choose to have what De
On 2015-02-11 23:32:32 +0100 (+0100), Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
[...]
> Am I know expected to insult you as well? Guess I'm not up to date, what
> Debian's CoC actually demands, it only seems to be usable when being
> against me but not for myself ;-)
[...]
Apologies--I was paraphrasing Ralp
Hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 11.02.2015, 23:32 +0100 schrieb Christoph Anton
Mitterer:
> Anyway, to finally end this ugly matter on the Debian side, I've
> forwarded the pointer about this possible issue upstream, so that they
> can choose to have what Debian didn't want to do - a proper look at the
> mat
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89092
Since that's the first good valid argument against I feel I should
answer:
On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 21:12 +, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> My passwords will stop working. (Okay, not _mine_ specifically, but
> someone's...) Chan
Processing control commands:
> forwarded -1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89092
Bug #777643 {Done: Osamu Aoki } [general] general: possibly,
some keyboard layouts should use U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR instead of U+00B7 MIDDLE
DOT
Set Bug forwarded-to-address to
'https://bugs.freedesktop
On 2015-02-11 16:14:06 +0100 (+0100), Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
[...]
> Is there any special reason why you think it would be bad idea?
> Like a use case where people depend on having the MIDDLE DOT and
> which would break if it was changed?
[...]
My passwords will stop working. (Okay, not _
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 04:14:06PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 22:44 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Whether that was intended or not, that's not what people actually did when
> > they made those keyboard layouts. They did not put the dot multiplication
> > sign
On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 22:44 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Whether that was intended or not, that's not what people actually did when
> they made those keyboard layouts. They did not put the dot multiplication
> sign on that key; they put the middle dot symbol on that key.
Arguing like that, we cou
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes:
> It seems to be quite logical that actually the dot multiplication sign
> is meant, it's on the same key then the cross multiplcation sign, and in
> the group of arithmetic operators.
Whether that was intended or not, that's not what people actually did when
the
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org:
> reopen 777643
Bug #777643 {Done: Ben Hutchings } [general] general:
possibly, some keyboard layouts should use U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR instead of
U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT
Bug reopened
Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #777643 to the same valu
reopen 777643
stop
On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 05:08 +, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> This is speculation, not a proper bug report.
And is there any reason to name it "speculation" apart from that being
just your personal opinion without any further arguments for it?
It seems to be quite logical that act
Package: general
Severity: normal
Hey.
Sorry for reporting against general, but actually I'm not quite
sure which package(s) is/are canonically responsible for the
keyboard mappings in all different places (console, X, wayland)
these days.
Some keyboard layouts (at least the German one) give th
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