[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 71176] Key combinations to easily insert accented Latin characters

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71176

--- Comment #14 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to Óvári from comment #13)
> (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #12)
> > The input method belongs to the OS/DE, in my opinion.
> Thank you Heiko Tietze for your fantastic suggestion that “the input method
> belongs to the OS/DE, in my opinion”. This would enable this to work across
> all applications.
> 
> How can GNOME and KDE be advised of this as:
> 
> The Document Foundation and GNOME Foundation to tighten their relationship,
> by exchanging seats in their Advisory Boards
> https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/06/16/the-document-foundation-
> and-gnome-foundation-to-tighten-their-relationship-by-exchanging-seats-in-
> their-advisory-boards/
> 
> KDE e.V. joins advisory board of The Document Foundation
> https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/06/16/kde-e-v-joins-advisory-
> board-of-the-document-foundation/
> 

Lovely sentiments, but absolutely no relevance to this issue. And I don't
beleive Heiko was suggesting that as a potential means of addressing this.
Rather he was suggesting that the OS/DE should provide the service--and we
should facilitate that support in those that do.

Something we already accomplish for the IBUS IME.  Bug 42437 is in queue for
the OS X PressAndHold.app, we've already implemented <alt>+X handling of
Unicode input, and the Autocorrect based :emoji: entry.

A cross platform "deadkey" approach similar to PressAndHold is
feasible--perhaps even using the Zombie Key's algorithms, but I still have
heartburn that it is too Western European centric and that from the projects
perspective across all supported languages and scripts that features of the
Special Character dialog is the better investment of developer effort.

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