> I can imagine that a handicapped person would be challenged to type û, > because it requires three keys at the same time (compose-shift-6), but > then sticky keys would address that (in X), I presume. Oh, and I just > discovered that typing compose and shift-6 in sequence instead of > together also works. So trouble gone, only max two keys at the same > time, which is needed *all* the time when using a keyboard. So, even > more, for a "normally constituted person", what's the trouble? > > It might cut down a bit on your wpm (words per minute), that is > true. Definitely, yes. The occurences of a few accented characters in French are high enough for them to require single keystrokes to enter éèçàù characters and not funky compose key combinations which are only used by hard-core geeks (the normal user will just skip the accents in such case and, therefore, will make a mess with our language).
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