On 6/15/08, Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, if there is a need for decomposed forms anyway, it is good know > about it. > > > > I don't think there's much of a need, but there are definitely still > decomposed layouts and old input versions around, and especially old fonts. > We quite often get "bug" reports because people are still using pre-Unicode > fonts.
It was from many years ago when people dropped custom charsets (VNI, TCVN...) in favor of unicode. There were two groups: one favors precomposed form, the other prefers composed form. There was no standardization so people just used what they liked. All people is using precomposed form now, I believe. > > > > > > For Vietnamese, it is important to look at the xkeyboard-config project > and check > > what does default layout do, and that it is a reasonable choice. > > > > OK. I'll try to chase that up. However, Duy is probably the best person to > do that, because he has been involved with input software. Duy, do you have > time to check this? (The original discussion is pasted below, for > reference.) It maps alphanumeric letters to precomposed form letters. But I don't think this layout really matters in real life. Vietnamese input methods have a long traddition of using theirs own way: US layout, no dead key, no preediting window, usually emiting backspace to modify some letters. These input methods operate on "word" level instead of letter level, which resembles how Vietnamese text is written. -- Duy _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n