On Saturday, 10 May 2014, Paul Harrison <<a href="mailto:mythtv@sky.com">mythtv@sky.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 10/05/14 02:20, Sam Jacobs wrote:<br>
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BSkyB customers would think that—Sky have now even put the search bar itself right on the home screen, and guess how you enter text into it… Mobile phones that still have number buttons still use the method, though. Phones that don’t use the method don’t have the number keys. Imagine how UTTERLY STUPID the designers of a phone would have to have been, if that phone had alpha labels but forced you to use the directional buttons to enter text! Tell me that would not have frustrated the hell out of you.<br>
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I have a Sky HD box and must admit the search does work well.<br>
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What you have got to remember though is we have international users so accented characters would have to be catered for. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was reading a while ago about a Unicode feature, I think it was called something like lexical equivalence, that I think would be useful here. The effect of it in this context is that a bare e might also match è, é, ê and so on. I'll try to find it all again. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Some people use remotes, some use keyboards. Making things work in a satisfactory way for everyone can make things more difficult than it first appears. That's not to say it can't be done and I'm sure you will come up with inventive ways to keep everyone happy.</blockquote>
<div><br></div>I think that a “How will you interact with this frontend?” question in the wizard would be useful here, although I expect I would need to make a very strong case—and only rightly so, in my opinion—for adding something to the wizard, of all places. <div>
<br><div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If you take the time to add the suggestion to the forum (<a href="https://forum.mythtv.org/viewforum.php?f=9" target="_blank">https://forum.mythtv.org/<u></u>viewforum.php?f=9</a>) so your ideas doesn't get lost I would be grateful :)</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Will do :) Thanks Paul</div><div><br></div>Sam<span></span></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Sam Jacobs on MythTV 0.27, UK Freeview SD & Freesat HD, EIT-only EPG<br>
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