On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 08:46 -0500, James Cornell wrote:
> Then disable the input mode.  French and English are single byte and
> don't need it.  Right click it, and find the disable option.

When I do that, I cannot enter any special characters that are part of
my character set.  That's the original problem I'm trying to solve.  How
do I enter these characters without this cryptic input method thing?

> We are
> under Latin because English is derived from Latin and encompases French
> as well,

Yeah, I know, was being facetious.  I was making a subtle point that the
user interface is poor.

> but neither need access to special characters such as Han
> symbols or Kanji.

But I need access to special characters like ??, ??, ??, etc (which had to
use "Latin" input mode to type in to this email message).

> In my option we should ask the user upon install at
> the user creation area what language the system should prefer as Solaris
> 10 did, because forcing it upon us it not useful.  Why in their humble
> design plan they chose to enable something that's useless for modern
> Latin derivatives which has improper documentation blows my mind.

Indeed, and I think that this is being worked on.  My question, however,
is how do I make things work when this thing is successfully disabled?

-Seb



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