At 12:34 AM 4/28/01 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I didn't read the whole thread here, but there is actually an ISO
>standard on this, ISO 14755. There are various details on how it's
>required to behave, but basically Ctrl+Shift+hexdigit.
>
>AbiWord will need to support GTK input methods after porting to GTK
>2. As it happens the default GTK input method already supports the ISO
>standard, so you can Ctrl+Shift+hexdigit in any text widget or entry
>box. If AbiWord supports input methods at all (e.g. for Japanese
>usage) then it will also support this out of the box.
>
>You'll have to think through your XP strategy, of course. Probably if
>you implement this on the XP layer as well it's not a problem, since
>you just won't get the hex digit key events from GTK in the GTK case.
>
>Havoc
Hi Havoc,
Thanks for the pointer. Jonathan mentioned this earlier Friday, and we
spawned a separate thread to discuss that alternative as well.
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/April/1164.html
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/April/1176.html
The additional details on GTK2 input methods are helpful. Any public ETA on
when we might expect widespread distribution? I don't follow the GTK/GNOME
release schedules as closely as Dom et al.
Thanks,
Paul
