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by Jach
1740 days ago
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I almost entirely agree, though I think your third point (typing non-ascii characters) could be less severe with one extra lesson in the typing course most kids are forced to take. When I first took French in 7th grade somehow I learned online you could enter ascii codes (whatever those were) on Windows with alt+numpad, and I still have memorized that alt+130 gives é. Later I moved to Linux where we have a great Compose key system, so I can just type <compose> + e + ' and get é, <compose> + c + , to get ç, and so on, with <compose> mapped to whatever I like (currently right-alt). Supposedly (haven't tried it) this system now has a Windows port: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose Asian languages are harder. But if you're told about IME, then at least if you know what you want to type, how to actually type it isn't a big burden. IME can also help with rarer math symbols like ⋂ (\bigcap) ≅ (\cong) or ⊵ (\unrhd), or is another way to get something like the compose key system. |
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And now your typing is not at all fluid, even if you didn't have to stop and thing about every single special characters (which most people do), you will have to enter a combination to get them every time completion can't help.
In fact, even with an AZERTY keyboard, typing French, my native language, is slower than english.
Instead of having one simple common ground, you also now have an infinite number of variations to care about.
Not to mention having to understand a lib in spanish, an another one in russian and a last one in Hindi or arab.