>Rare enough .. but besides "oeuf" is also occurs in such very common >words as "voeu" [wish] and "coeur" [heart] and it really bothers me when >I see them incorrectly spelled in web pages for instance. I spot it and >after that I tend to lose focus and not be able to take in what I'm >reading for a short while.
How're they misspelled? >>>>Or, if none of the distributed keymaps is exactly what you want, you can >>>>write your own. It isn't hard. See ":help :loadkeymap" for the theory, >>>>and look at the contents of Bram's $VIMRUNTIME/keymap/accents.vim and my >>>>$VIMRUNTIME/keymap/esperanto_utf8.vim for a couple of simple examples. >Already started on this: copied accents.vim to ~/.vim/keymap/ .. >renamed it to foreign.vim and added the Spanish inverted question / >exclamation marks - an for now I have mapped to "!!" and "??". >Come to think of it, French would appear to have the most annoying >spelling system of the West European languages that I have some degree >of familiarity with. Spanish, Italian, and German seem to use fewer >non-ASCII characters. >In order to set up my foreign language keymap correctly I would really >need tables of all the characters that occur in these languages, decide >which ones are common enough to be worth adding to the keymap, and make >sure I build a scheme that's coherent before I get my fingers to >memorize it. I'll scour the Wiki's later today.. see if I can find >anything useful. If you wouldn't mind, definitely keep me in the loop on this one, as I've got something of an interest. Offhand, some contributions and questions: beta-looking SS (German) slashed 'l' (Polish) slashed 'o' (Scandinavian or thereabouts, not sure if Dutch or other) AElig/aelig/OElig/oelig (Latin, etc.) ccedil/Ccedil (how done, ",C"?) ecedil(?) (also Polish, possibly other vowels, 'though don't recall offhand) Oh, someone on the list is native Polish, so might ask him. Was it Mikolaj? Dunno anyone Dutch who'd recall the slashed-'o'. How to enter Aring (eg, Ångstrom)? "oA"?? Synonymous with "aa" (eg, "Haas" == "Hås"?) Oh, well...
