Re: text-replacements: add ä and the like (issue 281470043 by address@hidden)

[David Kastrup]

Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:

> On 22.01.2016 02:13, Dan Eble wrote:
>>> text-replacements: add &auml; and the like
>>> Provides aliases auml,Auml,ouml,Ouml,uuml,Uuml
>>> They were wanted by a user, so why not provide them?
>> I don’t want my observation to hold back this change if everyone
>> else likes it, but this looks like a slippery slope.
>
> What’s the danger that you see?

There is a whole lot of character entities in Unicode.  Several hundreds
of thousands I think.

> The alternative would be to deprecate using this input method.

Why?

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David Kastrup