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Re^6: X11::GUITest and Umlauts

by LanX (Saint)
on Oct 17, 2025 at 17:09 UTC ( [id://11166546]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^5: X11::GUITest and Umlauts
in thread X11::GUITest and Umlauts

> crazy, right?

Well, not surprising, my dad had a typewriter° without "1". You had to type "l0" for "10".

Of course was the font chosen to be closer.

We still have this kind of ambiguities on our keyboards, like using a single quote for apostrophe (or vice versa)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

°) after some searching, it must have been the iconic Olivetti Lettera 22 or one of the successors like Olivetti Lettera 32. I still remember the turquoise case with the black stripe in the middle.

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