Bug#444035: full ACK!
Hi, I discovered today, after upgrading the X.org packages that there
was no way of writing "São Paulo" which is a quite usual city name.
It's not that I write in Portuguese that often, but since Brazil is
the largest economy in the region, you'll imagine that there's a lot
of communication with them.
I find the explanations about complicating shell usage irrelevant:
both slashes (/ and \), apostrophes and backticks are dead keys or
need combinations (while in US layout they don't), and are way more
needed that the tilde in shell usage. Making a poll is not useful nor
representative, just think about the population that uses the latam
layout (latin-americans, supposedly excluding brazilians), and you'll
find that all those people have a very big neighbour which speaks
Portuguese.
If the latam layout doesn't support Portuguese, why don't we call it
just Spanish?
Please, give us at least ONE dead tilde. Three non-deads doesn't have
any sense. And no, using compose + alt-gr + ñ + a is not an option for
a single char.
--
Martín Ferrari
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