Lady Viktoria:
"Arcane key combination" really makes close to no sense to me. The umlaut ones are just sitting there on my keyboard. Is there no way of making a site recognise a character input and automate the coding process?
Doing HTML snippets to format a post since whatever the bug/virus/Microsoft conspiracy that messes up javascript (such as the format buttons or drop down menu for text style on RPoL) on my laptop is hard enough, learning an entirely new set of codes just isn't very high on my priority list.
There are plenty of us blondes out there who just want a computer to work without making us have to think about what goes on under the surface. I know, it's a foolish approach, but I'm just that kind of a girl, computers should just work without me having to wonder how they work... *Ahems*
RPoL does 'work' - actually it works very, very well indeed - However RPoL is an English language website designed for use on 'proper' computers. Those of us who work outside those parameters have to put up with it.
Unfortunately for you, Os with slashes through, Cs with squiggly bits underneath them, umlauts, upside-down-?s etc etc are NOT part of the English language. To a lesser extent I have a similar problem, in that sometimes I use a few words of different language and I even use non-standard characters occasionally (at least they are non-standard as far as the English character set goes). - normally just for flavour in my case.
However, Jase DOES permit us to use languages other than English in our games and has even made some compromises which help, such as allowing many special characters in the body of posts ....
To some extent it is the same with people who use mobile phones to access the site. The site is designed for a 'proper' PC with a reasonable amount of memory, a full sized screen, a full browser and a half-decent download speed. On my PC I have a small screen, a limited browser and a restricted download speed. I can still use RPoL - but it isn't quite as easy ....
Same is true for those guys who are restricted to dial up access ....
I guess I am saying that there are a number of us with different issues with using the site - BUT we are all outside the mainstream user group that the site is designed for ... English language games on PCs with a decent download speed ...
We (as not in the mainstream) have work around those issues as best we can :)