Simos Xenitellis wrote: > You can have a look at this document, > http://planet.hellug.gr/misc/polytonic/ Although it is in Greek, it > should be feasible to discern the combinations proposed. For example, > "Νεκρό πλήκτρο" is "Dead key" in the list. If there are queries, feel > free to refer to me.
Very interesting. Is this a proposal, or has it been implemented? According to Babelfish, you say "Your distribution of Linux that has been published after October 2005 should include the renewed system that we describe here." Mine does not, but I don't trust the Babelfish translation.. As far as I can see, it would not be difficult to implement it. Nothing would have to be changed in the binaries, only in the xkb and Compose files. I noticed you only want to use 'two level' keys (normal and shift), not using AltGr. Is this some kind of standard? (e.g. Greek national standard, or some other kind of standard)? The present pc/gr file in xkb uses 'three level' keys. BTW I suppose when you say that tonos/oxia is on the ; key, you mean the key which is ; on US keyboards, not the key which is ; on Greek keyboards? > The "Compose" file should be broken in smaller files per script > rather than having a big monolithic file. What advantage would this bring? If we have many small pieces of the Compose file, how is the user (or the system) supposed to decide when to use which piece? Wouldn't this create another configuration problem? UTF-8 allows using one system for all languages and scripts, without changing locales. There is only one, IMHO unavoidable, but small, disadvantage: some files (like fonts, and the Compose file) tend to become rather big. But memory and disk space are not as expensive as they used to be. And the user does not notice anything of this. She just thinks: wow! I can input any language anywhere, at any time! > There is increasing interest in updating this area of Xorg > (http://community.livejournal.com/xkbconfig/) and I hope it gets done > soon. Hmm.. "xkb" and "Compose" are two completely different mechanisms. One is input to the other. People often complain about xkb being 'mysterious' or 'arcane'. Since xfree86 4.3 and x.org came around, it isn't anymore. It just lacks user-level documentation. Recently, thanks to this list, I have come close enough to enlightenment to attempt a user-level description on my utf-8 page, sections 6.1 and 6.2 (http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu). Regards, Jan -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
