--- Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@...>
wrote:

> Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > [...]
> > > the <DELETE> key would erase the whole "ki"
> > > cluster. It is never possible to place the
> > > cursor "between" a consonant and its matra.
> >
> > That is horrible.
>
> That's always been also my impression. However, *if*
> this behavior is really what Indian users want,
> well...
>
> Thinking about it, this is exactly what happens in
> Western scripts with "accented" letters, and I don't
> find it innatural (probably just because I am used
> to it). Typing in Italian I keep using the wrong
> accent all the time (my dialect misses the phonetic
> distinctions marked by accents, so I only rely on
> memory for which accent should be used), still it
> doesn't seem strange that the DELETE and BACKSPACE
> kill both the accent and the letter carrying it.

Up to Windows 2000 backspace and delete operated on
codepoints but due to demand from users of these
languages (so I believe) this was improved for Windows
XP which has much better support for Indic languages.
I find it annoying too but I'm not a native user of
these languages and I'm happy they are getting what
they want. In the meantime it's not hard to find an
old editor which still works in the old way.

Andrew Dunbar.

> --
> Marco
>
>
>

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