[maemo-community] Should we restart the Unicode voting?

[From: Dave Neary]

Hi,

Andrew Flegg wrote:
> Obvious question here is whether this is direct keys, blue-arrow keys
> or characters in the palette. I'm assuming it's to determine the
> relative placement of all three.

Looking at the N900 keyboard, it seems most likely to be blue-arrow keys.

>> $ % & ( ) < = > \  _ | ~ £ €
> 
> I thought there was an argument that the currency symbols should be
> removed as within a market they're important (perhaps less so to a
> savvy user, but I can imagine the reviews if a UK device doesn't show
> a pound sign), but a lot less so outside that market. It's probably
> also worth saying that all these keys would be accessible *somehow*.

Funny enough the "pound" symbol is # for most Americans, since on uk
keyboards £ is in the same place as #.

I had feedback from several voters that $ is important for shell users,
in spite of being non-Americans.

I guess this will depend on the size of the markets & the cost of
producing different keyboards more than our opinion :)

 > Also, I'd suggest very carefully controlled test. Given the
> multi-regions receiving the email, the character encoding should be
> UTF-8, and this may require a change to the vote email sending thing.

We can blame the Mail::Internet perl module. Do we need to add an extra
header line to make the mail specify UTF8 encoding?

Cheers,
Dave.

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