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Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by robin_reala on Friday April 17, 2015 @03:59AM (#9392801)
English has lots of loan words using accents including common words like café and résumé and more uncommon ones like crème brûlée. It has native although uncommon accents, e.g. in coöperation. Personally, I also commonly type in Swedish which has the extra letters å, ä and ö in its alphabet, sometimes type in German (ö, ü and ß) and occasionally use an IME for 日本語 (Japanese). IME aside, losing direct access to the above accents, all of which are muscle memory by now, is one of the major reasons I probably wouldn’t consider a Windows laptop.

(I didn’t mention metakey access to typing typographically correct characters: –, “, ”, ‘, ’, … etc)

Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by Nullabillity on Friday April 17, 2015 @06:19AM (#9393305)
Or you could type it in two strokes instead by typing ´ then e. Typographical punctuation should be the editor's concern when it matters.
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by nailer on Friday April 17, 2015 @04:38AM (#9392953)
Sure, but people rarely type them out - I might ask you to meet me at a particular cafe, but less likely at a particular café.
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by robin_reala on Friday April 17, 2015 @04:58AM (#9393027)
Isn’t it chicken and egg though? People rarely type them out because they’re very hard to type out on a Windows machine.