Timeline for LaTeX style accents in regular text
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://stackapps.com/ with https://stackapps.com/ | |
| Jul 6, 2013 at 19:27 | comment | added | Evan Jenkins | Character escapes are not recommended by the W3C (w3.org/International/questions/qa-escape). Our pages are encoded in UTF-8, so there's absolutely no reason to obfuscate text by using unnecessary character escapes! It's been a very long time since this was the correct way to handle "foreign" characters, so I don't think dredging it up now is useful. | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 21:19 | comment | added | Manishearth | @quid yeah, it was intentional, just to make it clear which accent is which. | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 20:53 | comment | added | user9072 | It is slightly ironic that there are words with wrong diacritics in this answer (but I assume this is intentional). Otherwise, while it does not really answer the question, I think it could be useful for some to have the information around. My way of doing it is copying from somewhere else, typically Wikipedia, which works well for me. | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 20:23 | comment | added | Manishearth | @FrançoisG.Dorais I know :) I'm not sure if this has a chance of being implemented. However, I will try to modify my IPA Keyboard script to fit this. | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 20:20 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | The idea is that mathematicians already have a way that they use all the time. Support for HTML entities is not uniform: čaron, çedil, ümlaut,... | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 20:16 | history | edited | François G. DoraisMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 | typo |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 20:11 | history | answered | Manishearth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |