I've always wondered why accents are generally added before the letter in most systems. The old Mac way was option-e e for é, dead-key way is ' e, but you have to type ' ' or ' SPC for the actual quote character. There's some keyboards based on alt-gr and such, but when we write we usually do it afterwards.
I could see that sending the wrong character initially to an online program is suboptimal, but we often do that anyway and have to hit delete.
Another thought, why is there no clever autocorrect to try to add the ¿ in the right spot? Again, not the desired behavior always, but in many cases. It could be a suggestion that you must approve. Thankfully, texting has shown that Spanish users are not that keen on correct punctuation.
> I've always wondered why accents are generally added before the letter in most systems.
As with many of these things, it’s a holdover from typewriters. ‘Dead keys’ in typewriters were literally keys which did not move the carriage to the next position: thus to get accented characters you would type the dead key, then the letter, so that both would end up in the same position on the page. (Incidentally, this also explains why we so often use SPC after a dead key to get the base character.)
I could see that sending the wrong character initially to an online program is suboptimal, but we often do that anyway and have to hit delete.
Another thought, why is there no clever autocorrect to try to add the ¿ in the right spot? Again, not the desired behavior always, but in many cases. It could be a suggestion that you must approve. Thankfully, texting has shown that Spanish users are not that keen on correct punctuation.