Kaixo! On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:14:39AM -0400, Anthony Souphavanh wrote:
> I am new to the group. I work on Lao Keyboard mapping for XFree86 version > 4.0. I am asking for your kind suggestions as to where to start. I You need to write a keyboard definition using the "unicode keysyms" for the Lao letters. "unicode keysyms" are X11 keysyms of the form 0x100#### with #### replaced with the hexa value of the unicode char you want. I don't know if Lao keyboard is similar to Thai keyboard or not; if it is, you can start looking at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/th copy it under another name (eg: "lo") and edit it. Thai has symbolic keysyms, as its support was integrated long ago in XFree86, before unicode support. > 2. Be able to use Lao UNICODE font under MS Arial UNICODE via XFree86 Lao > input method Then, you just need to use an UTF-8 locale, and load your created keyboard. And make your unicode font available as *-iso10646-1 and use it. > Use #2 to tranlstate or work on Lao KDE version 3.x.x Gtk2 (Gnome) and Qt3 (KDE) have even better mechanisms to handle and display some complex scripts, like Thai, and I suppose Lao works similarly. Now, to know if Lao support has explicitely been developped yet or not you should ask on gtk/gnome/kde mailing-lists. > Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Anousak S. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fonts mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts -- Ki ça vos våye bén, Pablo Saratxaga http://chanae.stben.be/pablo/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0xD9B85466 [you can write me in Walloon, Spanish, French, English, Italian or Portuguese]
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