In article <rf54tcqqmnk.fsf@vx.cit.alcatel.fr>,
James Kanze <james-albert.kanze@vx.cit.alcatel.fr> wrote:

>ALT-SHIFT-something (with a different something on each machine), but
>this is painful; using digraphs would be much simpler.

But why not declare trigraphs obsolescent (is that the right
terminology?) now when we have digraphs? Trigraphs are much more ugly IMHO.
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d96-mst@nada.kth.se (Mikael Steldal) writes:

>In article <rf54tcqqmnk.fsf@vx.cit.alcatel.fr>,
>James Kanze <james-albert.kanze@vx.cit.alcatel.fr> wrote:
>
>>ALT-SHIFT-something (with a different something on each machine), but
>>this is painful; using digraphs would be much simpler.
>
>But why not declare trigraphs obsolescent (is that the right
>terminology?) now when we have digraphs? Trigraphs are much more ugly IMHO.

Digraphs don't work inside string literals.

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