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
