Re: Add French-specific note names (issue 239930043 address@hidden)

[Francisco Vila]

El 19/05/2015 23:12, "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> escribió:
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> Valentin Villenave wrote Monday, May 18, 2015 8:41 PM
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> >> BTW dear lazylist: where do you have the 'ñ' on your keyboards?
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> > Like most diacritics, in France it involves first typing AltGr+é for
> > the tilda, then adding the "n" separately.
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> We don't have it anywhere on the English keyboard.
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> After a bit of research
> (eg see http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards.asp)
> on my laptop I have to hold down the Alt key and the Fn key, and
> type JOU, which is actually 164 with the Fn key pressed.
> (It would be 164 on the numeric key pad, but my laptop doesn't have
> one.  The Fn key simulates one using 10 letter keys.  Instead
> of holding down Fn I could press Num Lk which does the same thing.)
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> And here it is:  ñ
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> Alternatively I could fire up the character map which is hidden in
> All Programs/Accessories/System Tools, hunt for the character
> in the required font, and cut and paste it.
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> Here it is: ñ
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> The only characters under Alt Gr are acute accent vowels: áéíóú.

Seriously? I've played a bit on Linux and can type dozens of esoteric
characters plus shift plus diacritic+shift etc.

> No idea what code is generated.  Pretty sure it isn't unicode.
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> You can see why we seem to be lazy ;)

Oh sorry, I said lazylist meaning the lazy one is really me.

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> Trevor