Comment 10 for bug 615565
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| Mihai Capotă (mihaic) wrote Re: [Bug 615565] Re: Diacritics: Glyphs for cedilla characters U+015E, U+015F, U+0162, U+0163 (ŞşŢţ) use commas | #10 |
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On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:56, Mark Shuttleworth
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> On 22/08/10 08:41, Mihai Capotă wrote:
>> The source of the problem is that many people still input text using the
>> old cedilla characters. This is mainly on Windows XP which doesn't
>> support the new comma characters.
> Is that problem declining as XP is phased out? Do moderrn OS's handle it
> correctly?
Yes, Ubuntu handles it correctly and so do Windows Vista and 7, and Mac OS X.
But new text creation is only part of the problem. The cedilla
documents will exist for the foreseeable future. Replacing the actual
characters (as opposed to the glyphs, their aspect), is a very
difficult thing which may never happen.
Mihai