Subject: Re: bug#43866: 26.3; italian postfix additions

From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 19:59:55 +0200

8 okt. 2020 kl. 19.18 skrev Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>:

>    Francesco> I would not include c= and C=.  I would not include e= either.  These
>    Francesco> things are very annoying unless they are really useful, so better just
>    Francesco> include what's really needed and nothing more.
> 
> The advantage of e= is that (on a US-type keyboard at least) it
> doesnʼt involve any modifiers. But then again adding it would increase
> the chances of someone typing it by mistake.

As you noted, e= is already in latin-postfix. It seems odd to require E= in one mode and e= in another. It makes more sense for italian-postfix to be a subset of latin-postfix, so that an Italian user who needs foreign letters can switch without relearning composition pairs.