[OT] Re: 1 - 17 ms, 553 ╬╝s, and 1 hnsec

Patrick Schluter Patrick.Schluter at bbox.fr
Mon May 27 20:03:10 UTC 2019


On Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 02:12:10 UTC, Les De Ridder wrote:
> On Sunday, 19 May 2019 at 12:24:28 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:
>> On Saturday, 18 May 2019 at 21:05:13 UTC, Les De Ridder wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 18 May 2019 at 20:34:33 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
>>> wrote:
>>>> * hurrah for French keyboard which has a rarely used µ key, 
>>>> but none for Ç a frequent character of the language.
>>>
>>> <Caps Lock><key marked with '9' on the number row><Caps Lock>
>>
>> That's the lowercase ç. The uppercase Ç is not directly 
>> composable,
>
> No, note that I said <Caps Lock> and not <Shift>. Using <Caps 
> Lock> it
> outputs a 'Ç' for me (at least on X11 with the French layout).

Does not work on Windows. <Caps lock> and it gives 9. I tested 
also on my Linux Mint box and it output lowercase ç with <Caps 
lock>.

>
>>
>> There are 2 other characters that are not available on the 
>> french keyboard: œ and Œ. Quite annoying if you sell beef 
>> (bœuf) and eggs (œufs) in the towns of Œutrange or Œting.
>
> It seems those are indeed not on the French layout at all. 
> Might I
> suggest using the Belgian layout? It is AZERTY too and has both 
> 'œ'
> and 'Œ'.

No, it hasn't.
I indeed prefer the Belgian keyboard. It has more composable 
deadkey characters accents, tildas. Brackets [{]} and other 
programming characters < > | etc, are better placed than on the 
French keyboard.
Btw æ and Æ are missing also, but there it's not very important 
as there are really only very few words in French that use them 
ex-æquo, curriculum vitæ, et cætera


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