Well, it's all thanks to castrated keyboard and "easy to use" software :) Can average person tell how to type a proper apostrophe instead of a single quote sign? Or opening/ending quote :) I bet first edition was done in word (apostrophes with auto-correction on) and then re-edited in email (single quotes)
I cheat and use the character palette, but the e/u/m assignments make sense to me. The most common accent on an e is that one, whatever it's called, and the umlaut (if not the dieresis) is most common on the u. And m makes a certain kind of sense, the symbols for micron and Angstrom units.
Oh, and another curmudgeon point. Microsoft Word will put an opening single quote when you type "'90s" or "'80s," when what you want is an apostrophe. My workaround is to type "x'80s" and delete the "x," but it doesn't seem to have caught on with the world at large.
In word I think you can always define multi-character substitution rules, so if you do "'80s" frequently, just create auto-substitution that'll be to your liking, and have one less thing to be annoyed about :)
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Can average person tell how to type a proper apostrophe instead of a single quote sign? Or opening/ending quote :)
I bet first edition was done in word (apostrophes with auto-correction on) and then re-edited in email (single quotes)
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Sø åré à büñçh ôƒ óthèr «special» characters and ”punctuation marks”.
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Why on earth is upper diacritics linked to e/u? And why lower case option-m is µ and upper case is Â?
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Oh, and another curmudgeon point. Microsoft Word will put an opening single quote when you type "'90s" or "'80s," when what you want is an apostrophe. My workaround is to type "x'80s" and delete the "x," but it doesn't seem to have caught on with the world at large.
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Frankly in about 90 percent of cases I need a-umlaut, as ä seems to be quite prevalent in German texts (for some reason my texts don't have many "für"s). I thought the alt-u is for "umlaut" but then what is "e"? Emphasis? And why alt-c is not © but rather ç (while alt-r is ®)? etc etc. Parts are logical, rest is stupid :)
In word I think you can always define multi-character substitution rules, so if you do "'80s" frequently, just create auto-substitution that'll be to your liking, and have one less thing to be annoyed about :)
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You know no-one uses one of those ever, not like every web design app uses one or anything...