Re: Experiments with classical Greek keyboard input

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Imitating the difficult-to-learn Windows system for 'multiple
diacriticals' should IMHO be offered as an option, but not as the only
option. The ease with which diacriticals can be combined by means of
xkb/Compose could be a 'Linux selling point' in the academic world.

BTW I am now terribly confused about he tonos/oxia issue.

-- "Tonos and oxia are considered equivalent in Unicode" - but why,
   then, are there different code points for them (U+1FFD, and all
   the letters "with oxia", vs. U+0384 and all the letters "with
   tonos")? Where does it actually say that they are equivalent?

-- Many (maybe most) font creators made different glyphs for oxia
   and tonos (although others did not, see the Gentium font), because
   they were "looking at unicode". But, surely, that was the correct
   place to look?

-- Kostas calls it "a bug of the fonts". If there is a bug, isn't it
   in the Unicode standard ?

I hope there is a way to put the genie back into the bottle. Just making
the keyboard entry for oxia "hard, forcing people not to use it" does
not seem to be the right way.

Regards, Jan



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