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"Dr. Ferenc Nagy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Dr. Ferenc Nagy
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Fri, 18 Feb 2000 08:04:45 +0100
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Wirt Atmar wrote:



>          -> unmarked e
>
> The longest sequence is for the "o":
>
>      unmarked o -> accent -> grave -> caret -> diaeresis -> tilde -> slash
>           -> oe -> masculine ordinal -> unmarked o
>
> The shortest tend to be the few marked consonants, such as the "n":
>
>      unmarked n -> n w/tilde -> unmarked n
>
This F11 trick is a typical twisted up English or American solution. It is
unacceptable for Hungarian (and Polish, Czech, ...) typists, too, because
the the accented characters are very frequent in these languages.
[In Spanish the >>'<< means the accent, so it occurs at most once in a
word. In Hungarian the accent is always on the first syllable, the  >>'<<,
denotes the length of the vowel, so such words like E'PI'TE'SZ = ARCHITECT
with _more_ vowels are possible.

The best solution is to change the keyboard with a key combination in
flip-flop manner.

                                                       Frank

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