#6280 HIGH Future : Keyboard creates non-standard accents (was: Abiword creates non-standard accents)

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#6280: Keyboard creates non-standard accents
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  Reporter:  homunq                    |       Owner:  uwog           
      Type:  defect                    |      Status:  new            
  Priority:  high                      |   Milestone:  Future Release 
 Component:  write-activity (abiword)  |     Version:                 
Resolution:                            |    Keywords:  accents unicode
  Verified:  0                         |    Blocking:                 
 Blockedby:                            |  
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Changes (by homunq):

  * priority:  normal => high


Comment:

 I realized that this is not a problem of abiword, it is a problem with the
 keyboard. This makes text created by this keyboard incompatible with
 standard unicode text. For instance, if I want to look up an article on
 Spanish Wikipedia, I can write something that looks identical to "más" but
 is really four unicode characters long, and so I won't find my article.
 Haven't tested whether Google has the smarts to ignore this, I wouldn't be
 surprised, but if not even Google becomes unusable.

 I'm sorry, unicode is great, but accented characters are accented
 characters. Just because you can write them as character plus accent,
 doesn't mean you don't sometimes NEED the accented character to find
 something in your language. To me, this is going back to the days of
 manual search-and-replace to fix encoding problems.

 I'm bumping this up to high just to get it re-assessed, I think it's
 justified but you can put it back down to Normal if you think I'm wrong.

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