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Why does OpenOffice lack a feature that's been around since the 1990s?

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 76.1.232.195] on November 26, 2007 12:55 AM
The lack of keyboard shortcuts for diacriticals is one of the most annoying problems I experience with OpenOffice, which every Windows-based word processor since the 1990s has provided with no extra macro programming required. Is there something proprietary about these keystrokes that prevents open-source word processors from simply offering keyboard shortcuts as a standard feature? Does anyone tests these programs on real secretaries, or just on other techies?

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