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2009-12-02 , 17:37
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Originally Posted by dneary View Post
We will get it fixed properly tomorrow by replacing € with €, and £ with £ and \\ replaced with \\\\. In the meantime, text it is.
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In the meantime, could you elaborate on the purpose of the vote please?
 

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2009-12-02 , 18:08
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I think it's about this: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/list...ommunity/55369.

Apparently, the hardware people want to know which keys to put on the keyboard.
 

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2009-12-02 , 18:28
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Originally Posted by dneary View Post
Hi,



Thanks to Ferenc we have patched this up temporarily - you no longer see a backslash, you see the text "backslash".

How did this happen? Easy - in the database we inserted '\\', '£' and '€' as options for the election. MySQL escaped \\ to \, which gets inserted in the javascript that constructs the candidate list, resulting in option4='\', instead of '\\'. We will get it fixed properly tomorrow by replacing € with €, and £ with £ and \\ replaced with \\\\. In the meantime, text it is.

Cheers,
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Hmhm, and still, what's the point?
 
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2009-12-02 , 19:58
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#14
I have got an interesting request from "the hardware guys". And I
thought of an interesting way to satisfy it.

The question is about hardware keyboards in mobile devices for different
languages. What characters to put, what characters to sacrifice? You
know it's a hot topic and maybe yourself have thought sometimes: why do
they put X which I don't used, while Y is missing?

So the team is doing their usual research, but they are also interested
in getting some direct feedback from maemo.org users. Sure, we can open
a Talk thread and see what happens but I was thinking of... using our
preferential voting tool + an invitation to all the maemo.org users to
vote.
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2009-12-02 , 20:59
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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
The question is about hardware keyboards in mobile devices for different
languages.
OK, cheers, that's much clearer now. I too got a bit confused when I saw that email and didn't quite know what it was all about.

For future voting requests, it would help to add a little be of context in the email (e.g. is this an official Nokia initiative or some random poll initiated by a random member of the community? What is the purpose of the poll? Is it a poll that could have a direct influence on future hardware / software features or a more informal poll started out of curiosity).
 

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2009-12-02 , 22:36
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Crap! I wish I had this information before I voted. I kinda based my vote on the N900, and naturally didn't vote for stuff that was already accessible on the keyboard, eventhough i actually use it more than the stuff I voted for.
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2009-12-02 , 22:44
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I'd like a way to rate them all equally highly except the currency symbols. I can't do that, can I?
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2009-12-02 , 23:35
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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
I have got an interesting request from "the hardware guys". And I
thought of an interesting way to satisfy it.

The question is about hardware keyboards in mobile devices for different
languages. What characters to put, what characters to sacrifice? You
know it's a hot topic and maybe yourself have thought sometimes: why do
they put X which I don't used, while Y is missing?

So the team is doing their usual research, but they are also interested
in getting some direct feedback from maemo.org users. Sure, we can open
a Talk thread and see what happens but I was thinking of... using our
preferential voting tool + an invitation to all the maemo.org users to
vote.
The context should have been given in the email and on the voting page. Now people have no idea what's it about, and results might not be usable for the purpose you are describing.
 

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2009-12-02 , 23:40
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Oh, and perhaps we need to specify what language keybd we're voting for, unless we're all propeller heads after an easy life in the shell
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Originally Posted by corsac View Post
And could we have some context about why we vote? Preferred in which way?
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