Re: Windows keyboard restrictions

2015-08-08 Thread Andrew Cunningham
On Saturday, 8 August 2015, Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote: Michael did do a series of blog posts on building TSF based input methods years ago. Something I tinkered with off and on. What we're waiting for is a guide we can follow, or some code we can ape. Such

Re: Windows keyboard restrictions

2015-08-08 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 17:05:26 +1000 Andrew Cunningham lang.supp...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, 8 August 2015, Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote: Michael did do a series of blog posts on building TSF based input methods years ago. Something I tinkered with off and on.

Re: Windows keyboard restrictions

2015-08-08 Thread Marcel Schneider
On 08 Aug 2015, at 00:18, Doug Ewell wrote: Marcel Schneider wrote: I just donʼt want to let the Mailing List believe that I agreed being classified as «fighting the [bad] fight» And I don't think Michael implied that. I just want to get the technical facts, so that hopefully they can

Re: Windows keyboard restrictions

2015-08-08 Thread Marcel Schneider
I think about another bug in my mailbox, so that this mail I sent in Plain Text on Thu, 6 Aug 2015, landed all wrecked in the Archive. Please may I resend this for that behalf. (I already ended up replacing all and by single angle quotation marks.) If you are a Mailing List subscriber,

RE: Windows keyboard restrictions

2015-08-08 Thread Marcel Schneider
On 08 Aug 2015, at 02:19, Andrew Glass (WINDOWS) wrote: Sorry to be late to this thread. I'm the Program Manager responsible for MSKLC at this time. As far as the history here, I can only reiterate Michael's point that making significant changes to user32.dll faces significant, perhaps

Re: Windows keyboard restrictions

2015-08-08 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 14:05:17 +0200 (CEST) Marcel Schneider charupd...@orange.fr wrote: 2. Supposed that Windows supported more than four characters per ligature: 2.1. Why has the MSKLC been limited to four characters per ligature? Because that was believed to be the architectural limit.

Re: Windows keyboard restrictions

2015-08-08 Thread Marcel Schneider
On 08 Aug 2015, at 00:30, Doug Ewell wrote: Marcel Schneider wrote: I brought the good news that SIXTEEN UNICODE CODE POINTS can be generated by a single key stroke on Windows six dot one. The only bad news, because of which I've e-mailed to the List, is that that wasn't working in

Re: Windows keyboard restrictions

2015-08-08 Thread Marcel Schneider
On 08 Aug 2015, at 15:01, Richard Wordingham wrote: On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 14:05:17 +0200 (CEST) Marcel Schneider wrote: 2. Supposed that Windows supported more than four characters per ligature: 2.1. Why has the MSKLC been limited to four characters per ligature? Because that was

Re: Windows keyboard restrictions

2015-08-08 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 16:22:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Marcel Schneider charupd...@orange.fr I'm very puzzled about this being UTF-16 code units, as stated also in the MSKLC Help. In the driver source kbd*.c, each of those entities is referred to as WCHAR, which is meant to mean (^^)

Re: Windows keyboard restrictions

2015-08-08 Thread Marcel Schneider
On 08 Aug 2015, at 16;39, Eli Zaretskii wrote: The Windows WCHAR is a 16-bit data type. What Windows documentation calls Unicode characters are Unicode codepoints encoded in UTF-16. Thanks a lot! Best regards, Marcel Schneider

Re: Windows keyboard restrictions

2015-08-08 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 16:22:57 +0200 (CEST) Marcel Schneider charupd...@orange.fr wrote: Further, we're awaiting the responses from Mr Glass at Microsoft. See http://unicode.org/pipermail/unicode/2015-August/002465.html . More information would take time. Richard.

Re: Windows keyboard restrictions

2015-08-08 Thread Doug Ewell
Now that I know Andrew is the PM for MSKLC ¹, and can answer Marcel's questions (publicly or privately) with authority, I'll duck out of this thread. ¹ I'm glad to hear that there is such a person. I was afraid the project had been left to die. -- Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton,

Re: Windows keyboard restrictions

2015-08-08 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 8/8/2015 6:26 AM, Marcel Schneider wrote: a useless worsening of the usability and of the usefulness of a product. Quote of the day. A./

RE: Windows keyboard restrictions

2015-08-08 Thread Marc Durdin
Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 17:05:26 +1000 Andrew Cunningham lang.supp...@gmail.com wrote: Michael did do a series of blog posts on building TSF based input methods years ago. Something I tinkered with off and on. Does this mean that one

Re: Windows keyboard restrictions

2015-08-08 Thread Marcel Schneider
On 08 Aug 2015, at 19;45, Doug Ewell wrote: Now that I know Andrew is the PM for MSKLC ¹, Probably Mr Glass wasn't Mr Kaplan's boss, so he is to overtake a legacy without having been involved in its generating. I didn't well notice the chronological relationship, so I asked questions whose

Re: Windows keyboard restrictions

2015-08-08 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 8/8/2015 1:57 PM, Marcel Schneider wrote: Now that I know Andrew is the PM for MSKLC ¹, Probably Mr Glass wasn't Mr Kaplan's boss, so he is to overtake a legacy without having been involved in its generating. I didn't well notice