Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help

Le 19-01-2025, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :

On 18 Jan 2025 22:53:38 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
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It's completely that. Look at your claims: you say that UTF-8 is
important to write correctly mathematical symbols and you are unable to
write any French word when you try to impress I don't know who. You are
that limited that you can't even copy/paste my first name when you
write it. You are the perfect example of the limited American.

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You overlook the fact that the standard computer keyboard,

There is no such thing as "the" standard computer keyboard. The fact
that you really believe that proves exactly what I said. You, as all
Americans, consider that the USA is all that exist in the world.

when faced with Unicode input, is extremely limited.

You are limited, don't blame your keyboard for that.

No one, and that includes myself, wants to press multiple keys
in sequence or in combination just to enter a single character.

How did you managed to write the upper case letters in your message?

But it's not only pressing the keys.  It's also learning and remembering
the correct sequence/combination.

Good tools should help you with that.

Consider your name.  I can copy/paste:
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Stéphane

You managed to do it, I'm impressed.

But if I could not copy/paste then I would have to know the
correct sequence/combination of keys and I can't waste time with
learning something that I will use only very infrequently.

Yes, but I never saw you write my first name except when you answered
some messages I wrote. In other words, you would always have been able
to copy/paste if if needed. I always saw you call me by my last name
when answering to someone else message.

The approximation, Stephane, although imperfect, is good enough
and no one should have any complaints.

I'm not complaining about that. I'm saying that your keyboard, as all
keyboard designed for Americans are only designed to write English, the
rest can fall into oblivion.

Unicode math symbols are extensive but, AFAIK, there are no
keyboards that contain even a partial subset of the symbols.
Instead, a complicated sequence/combination of key presses
is required for each symbol and such key presses often differ
with different software.  Entering math symbols is a huge
mess.

There are tools here to help you with that.

Then you can enter the "integral" symbol by pressing Win+J,
where Win is the otherwise useless "Windows Menu" key on some
keyboards.

The "Windows key" is just useless for you who are a lackey of your
mouse pretending the keyboard is superior. But if you want to avoid your
mouse, it's great to use the "Windows key" because it won't infer with
your applications. And mapping your keyboard as you do would render any
tilling WM unusable without bringing any advantage.

This layout needs some work and is also DOES NOT WORK ON THAT
JUNK WAYLAND.

Exactly my point. It's a lot of work where alternatives are easy to use
and better which can work at the same time with wayland and with xorg.

I'll just give you two of them, you won't like them because, unlike your
claims you'd rather use a mouse than a terminal. If you used a terminal,
you'd know how important a good terminal is and you would consider
kitty, which has among other things a great way to help with unicode:
<https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/unicode_input/> But I know,
you'd rather use your limited terminal just pretending it's enough.

And kitty is well integrated with vim which is a good text editor for
someone using more extensively his keyboard than his mouse. But it's too
difficult for you to use. But vim has digraphs to help with unicode:
<https://vim-jp.org/vimdoc-en/digraph.html>

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