Editing Sinhala and Similar Scripts

[Andre Schappo]

On 19 Mar 2014, at 01:33, Doug Ewell wrote:

> Richard Wordingham <richard dot wordingham at ntlworld dot com> wrote:
> 
>>> Typing is a nightmare.
>> 
>>> When you backspace it destroys multiple keystrokes.
>> 
>> I suspect this is a widespread and unsolved problem.
> 
> There are two types of people:
> 
> 1. those who fully expect Backspace to erase a single keystroke, and feel it is a fatal flaw if it erases an entire combination, and
> 
> 2. those who fully expect Backspace to erase an entire combination, and feel it is a fatal flaw if it erases just a single keystroke.
> 
> Unfortunately, both types exist in significant numbers.
> 
> --
> Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA
> http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell ­ 
> 

WRT Latin. I have just tested with OSX TextEdit and the precomposed character é U+00E9

Backspace erases é
Control+Backspace erases ´ leaving one with e

I had not realised this was possible until I experimented with combinations of Backspace + alt/command/ctrl/shift

André