I know it’s cute to have your word processing program auto-correct “(c)” into “©” … but why? 1 It is FAR more common for me to see “©” in correspondence when someone means “(c)” than for me to see “(c)” when someone means “©.” In fact, “©” when you mean “(c)” looks stupid and “(c)” when you mean “©” actually makes sense to me. Then again, I don’t know why you wouldn’t just write the word “copyright” instead of trying to find the symbol “©.”
In any case, given how infrequently the “©” symbol is used in common parlance, why would anyone ship software to include this auto-correct? If it were really that common, we’d have a key for it on the keyboard.
- Original title for this post: “This post has been brought to you by the letter ‘C” [↩]
Keyboards haven’t changed in a while. Software lets us do things hardware hasn’t caught up to.
Imagine if whenever you sat down at a computer, you had to study the keyboard to see what keys you had on that one. Possibly organized to the taste of the manufacturer. We already have that a little bit for laptops and it’s pretty annoying, and that’s without touching the main body of the keyboard.
Some keyboards, like phone keyboards have started including @ (not shift-2, just a button) and .com buttons. I wouldn’t be surprised if desktop keyboards get changed eventually but it’ll take a while. Standards shift VERY slowly.