On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Arne [utf-8] Götje ([utf-8] é«^Xç^[^[è^O¯) wrote: > On Thursday 30 September 2004 00:03, James Miller wrote: > > term) fonts to make foreign languages appear in OOo. But I'm trying > > to keep with the times and use the latest and greatest unicode > > everyone keeps raving about. Help, please? > > First of all, as you have already noticed, Unicode input is still in its > infancy on Linux... > > So, currently you have to decide on which specific input methods you > want. > > Please specify, which methods you want, then I can give you advice how > to do this. Also note that it depends on the application you are using. > Mozilla and OpenOffice can only handle the XIM protocol in the moment, > same as KDE. GTK2 apps have sometimes the possibility to use newer > approaches, but not all of them work...
Methods? The method, as I foresee it, involves pecking away at a keyboard with my fingers while strange and wonderful characters appear on a computer screen before me in response. I suppose I should have to make some gesture in order for these wonders to commence: maybe hitting some keys or something, or maybe clicking with the mouse. I have no idea what other methods beyond these there could be. As for apps, as I mentioned my main concern is with OpenOffice. I suppose it might be nice to have this capability in Abiword as well, but that's secondary. I have recently begun using the Gnome desktop/wm, I should probably mention. I should state that I've already acheived some limited success following some ipnut I got from some list members. For example, I came across the command line utility setxkbmap. Using it, (setxkbmap ru) I was able to type Russian characters in OOo. I'd like a different, phonetic keyboard layout, but it seems like this is along the right lines. What I need to find out now is what keyboards I can pass to setxkbmap: there should be a list or something somewhere, right?. I'm hoping there's a phonetic Russian one, and a phonetic Greek one would be great too. Still sort of feeling my way around. Thanks, James
