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MostAwesomeDude
on July 31, 2011
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What tiny thing in Lion makes you smile or has cau...
That method of entering accents seems really backwards to me. Why not a Compose key?
gchpaco
on July 31, 2011
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It has a compose key already in Option; this is more discoverable. (or can you figure out how to write ē easily on a US keyboard?)
julian37
on July 31, 2011
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Agreed. I don't have Lion installed yet, but in SL I can enter "ä" by typing option-U, then A. The article makes it sound like the new behavior can be disabled so I'm hoping that means the current behavior, which I'm very happy with, still works!
sophiebits
on July 31, 2011
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It does.
ü < crude attempt at a smiley face ;)
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