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[PROPOSED PATCH] C-x 8 shorthands for curved quotes, Euro, etc.

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 20499 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] C-x 8 shorthands for curved quotes, , Euro, etc.
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 04:56:20 -0400

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  > At least the last part of this thread was about _finding_ the
  > character, if you have only partial information about it.  My comment
  > above was about that use case, and that use case only.  You seem to be
  > talking about a different use case: when the user already knows quite
  > well which character she wants.

This seems like a misunderstanding about the word "find".

In general I know what the character looks like.
I expect I would spot it immediately if I saw it.
For instance, it wouldn't be hard to recognize the dotless i
in a list of lowercase non-ASCII letters.  Especially if it is
in some sort of order.

I'm afraid you've been looking for a solution to some problem
that I wasn't talking about.

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