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Article #205Spanish Input Methods (fwd)
From: Brian Tatro
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 05:42
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 05:42
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Forwarded message: > Sender: Gerald Reno <glreno@afterlife.ncsc.mil> > Subject: Spanish Input Methods > > > I am in the process of porting a tool from OpenWindows to Motif; unfortunately, > this means that I have to actually write input methods for Spanish accented > characters. Fortunately, the tool isn't in use yet, so I can change it to use > a different method -- I never liked OpenWindows three key compose sequence. > > My question is: what is the standard? How to native speakers type in Latin > America and Spain? Do they tend to ignore the accents, or actually use something > like OpenWindows' compose-character-accent sequence? Or something more > reasonable like alt-a to get an accented character? > > Spanish speakers: Given the choice of everything, what would you use? What is > the de facto standard? > > Jerry Reno (of course, I don't speak Spanish) glreno@afterlife.ncsc.mil -- ============================================================================ Brian Tatro Senior Editor Product Translation COMPUSERVE: 72154,531 Intergraph Corporation bptatro@trans2.b30.ingr.com ============================================================================
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110cdc,34f3e815af6b1b34,start X-Google-Attributes: gid110cdc,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-02-23 21:42:28 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!news.univie.ac.at!aci.cvut.cz!rhino.cis.vutbr.cz!gateway From: bptatro@trans2.b30.ingr.com (Brian Tatro) Newsgroups: bit.software.international Subject: Spanish Input Methods (fwd) Date: 24 Feb 1994 06:42:28 +0100 Organization: Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic Lines: 27 Sender: root@rhino.cis.vutbr.cz Approved: insoft-l-moderator@cis.vutbr.cz Message-ID: <199402240445.AA07009@trans2.b30.ingr.com>