[maemo-users] can't type ~ in browser

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 19:33, Josef Assad <joe at donassad.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 07:14:16PM +0000, Andrew Flegg wrote:
>>
>> Tap the ~, press space and then join the ranks of people upset by the
>> broken, unobvious, unintuitive and just plain crazy behaviour of the
>> character palette.
>
> I can see the point when the special character is necessary as a
> modifier to a regular character for languages that need them.

Absolutely. I'm not arguing that there doesn't need to be a way of
composing characters...

> If there's a more straightforward way to accomodate people who need ñ,
> ô, ü, etc. then I can't think of it.

...what I'm arguing is that it doesn't make sense for it to look and
(from a button point-of-view) feel similarly to the other buttons in
the palette; it doesn't make sense for it to be the third row (when
rows 1, 2 and 4 act the same) and that it's unobvious even for people
who are *used* to composing characters.

> https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5314

Ta.

-- 
Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew at bleb.org  |  http://www.bleb.org/