Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-24 Thread Denis Barbier
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:24:32PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > I have another question about UTF-8 and kbd: some keymaps are defined > twice, with Unicode notation and numerical (or litteral) notation, like > mk-utf.map and mk-cp1251.map. Since Unicode notation is needed to > input non-ASCII cha

Unicode Keyboard Input Linux - Naive keymap

2004-06-24 Thread Elvis Presley
Hi All, This is a utf-8 file produced with Microsoft Word 2000 on Windows 98. Wordpad only does utf-16. Windows 98 Notepad does not do Unicode at all. I'm going to send you this message using copy&paste into the Yahoo webmail form to see what happens. I've attached the original. Tschüss. Elvis

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-23 Thread Elvis Presley
--- Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have another question about UTF-8 and kbd: some keymaps are defined > twice, with Unicode notation and numerical (or litteral) notation, like > mk-utf.map and mk-cp1251.map. Since Unicode notation is needed to > input non-ASCII characters, all keyma

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-20 Thread Denis Barbier
I have another question about UTF-8 and kbd: some keymaps are defined twice, with Unicode notation and numerical (or litteral) notation, like mk-utf.map and mk-cp1251.map. Since Unicode notation is needed to input non-ASCII characters, all keymaps will sooner or later provide a -utf variant. But

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-17 Thread Wu Yongwei
Thank you. My version of Notepad has a little checkbox in the lower left corner of the 'Save As' dialog box called 'Save as Unicode'. I never saw it. 'Save as Type' has only Text Documents(*.txt) and All files. What about the other options, Unicode Big Endian, UTF-8? I do not quite understand it.

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-17 Thread Elvis Presley
Thank you. My version of Notepad has a little checkbox in the lower left corner of the 'Save As' dialog box called 'Save as Unicode'. I never saw it. 'Save as Type' has only Text Documents(*.txt) and All files. What about the other options, Unicode Big Endian, UTF-8? There is no entry in the N

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-16 Thread Wu Yongwei
You are wrong. Check the File - Save As menu item of Notepad. You will find the encoding option: ANSI, Unicode, Unicode Big Endian, UTF-8 are supported. You may need to specify a different font if some characters cannot display. By the way, many think it is a good idea to use real names in m

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-16 Thread Elvis Presley
--- Danilo Segan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today at 20:13, Elvis Presley wrote: > > I should have said, "unicode text file support." Wordpad still does unicode, > > but only in Word format, not as a text file, so I can still edit a document > > in unicode, but I have to copy and paste it into a

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-15 Thread Vasilis Vasaitis
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:43:38AM -0700, Elvis Presley wrote: ..[snip].. > Comparing characters would be easy, they compare as > unsigned integers, but sorting them would be a > problem, because you'd want to group all the > (accented) vowels together, according to language > specific rules. In

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-15 Thread Vasilis Vasaitis
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 11:39:44PM +0200, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: > Kaixo! > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:56:52AM -0700, Elvis Presley wrote: ..[snip].. > > This is about as complicated as it gets in polytonic > > Greek, three dead keys, two pre-position, one > > post-position, 'w' representing o

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-15 Thread Danilo Segan
Today at 20:13, Elvis Presley wrote: > > I haven't been able to determine exactly what vmware does from their website, > too proprietary, too hush-hush, but I assume they write VxDs which map the > Linux kernel to the Windows VMM, and the real hardware. Someone once told me > their product ran on t

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-15 Thread Elvis Presley
Windows Virtual Machines Kalhmera kosme. I'm at the library right now and our NT workstations do not have international keyboard "drivers" installed. So I have to write Greeklish. Elvis PS > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 at 16:44:48 +0200, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 05:55:18AM

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-15 Thread Elvis Presley
Windows Virtual Machines Kalhmera kosme. I'm at the library right now and our NT workstations do not have international keyboard "drivers" installed. So I have to write Greeklish. Elvis PS > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 at 16:44:48 +0200, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 05:55:18AM

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-15 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 05:55:18AM -0700, Elvis Presley wrote: >> [...] It would be perfectly ok to provide only very minimalistic kernel >> support (even simpler and lighter than the current one) and have a user > > Or none at all. No, some kernel support is needed; to be able to print

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-15 Thread Elvis Presley
Hi All, Thanks for your help. I'm still processing your input. They just changed my Yahoo! mail; let's hope you get this. Elvis PS User space text-mode only virtual terminals On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 21:38:13 +0200, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: > [...] It would be perfectly ok to provide only very

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-14 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:56:52AM -0700, Elvis Presley wrote: > I might like to vary the dead-key sequence from > {accent, letter} to {letter, accent}. On console I'm afraid you can't easily do that, as the compose sequences definition are quite poor. On X11 I would use unicode combini

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-14 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:43:38AM -0700, Elvis Presley wrote: > Unicode Keyboard Input Linux In fact unicode (trough utf-8 of course) mostly works on the console. The drawbacks are currently tied to the nature of the console (in the current text mode) and not to the encoding. The m

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-14 Thread Elvis Presley
--- Andries Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:56:52AM -0700, Elvis > Presley wrote: > > > Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux > > > > I'm interested in using the Linux console as a > > multi-language keyboard > > &g

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-14 Thread Elvis Presley
Unicode Keyboard Input Linux Hello, This attached diagram represents my (naive) understanding of terminal IO under Linux/Unix. Elvis PS The real console is essentially a graphical device, with screen(=display), keyboard and mouse, and whatever else might be considered interesting

Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-12 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:56:52AM -0700, Elvis Presley wrote: > Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux > > I'm interested in using the Linux console as a > multi-language keyboard > > 1) How do I switch the keyboard from language to > language? The kernel keyboard driver

Unicode Keyboard Input Linux

2004-06-12 Thread Elvis Presley
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: Unicode Keyboard Input Linux Hello World, I'm interested in using the Linux console as a multi-language keyboard, disregarding graphical X (and xterm) for the moment. 1) How do I switch the keyboard from language to language? I work in English, Greek, Latin