I am not an MS employee, so I cannot speak for them. But here are my
unofficial thoughts on it....
The OS treats this like any device driver, as far as I can see. Its not the
sort of thing that would be expected to be given out with the standard
operating system. I mean, even adding a keyboard beyond your default is
something that is uncommon, let alone wanting to create new keyboards or
modify existing ones. This is not a common user requirement.
michka
----- Original Message -----
From: "Manuel Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Magda Danish
(Unicode)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: Unicode keyboard editor utility
> Thanks for the reply. I don't anything about the work that would be
required, but
> all I'm suggesting is a utility either to create a custom keyboard file or
to edit a
> given keyboard file (not one to map a Unicode value on a key in all
possible keyboard
> layouts!). Is even this a major undertaking?
>
> So far, I've found exactly two programs that do that with Windows 2000 and
Unicode,
> one of them edits a given keyboard file, the other (in beta) creates a new
keyboard
> file, and both leave something to be desired.
>
> Edit existing keyboard:
> http://solair.eunet.yu/~minya/Programs/klm/klm.html
>
> Creates one (still in beta, ver. 5 beta 2 will work in Win 2k ):
> http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/
>
> p.s. I'm not sure why a utility like this is not included as part of the
os, since I
> expect the os maker already must have one.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Magda Danish (Unicode)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Unicode List"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Manuel Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 20:06
> Subject: Re: Unicode keyboard editor utility
>
>
> > I do not see a practical way to handle such a utility..... take (for
> > example) Windows 2000, with its almost 100 keyboard layouts, each having
1-8
> > different physical mappings depending on the state of shift keys, etc.
up at
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/keyboards.asp
> >
> > This means that there are probably several hundred keyboards that
contain
> > the Unicode character U+0041, for example. How can you have a simple
mapping
> > in an environment like that?
> >
> > michka
> >
> > Michael Kaplan
> > Trigeminal Software, Inc.
> > http://www.trigeminal.com/
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Magda Danish (Unicode)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 3:53 PM
> > Subject: Unicode keyboard editor utility
> >
> >
> > > Anyone knows about such a utility?
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Manuel Lopez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 9:22 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Minor issues
> > >
> > >
> > > [....]
> > >
> > > A side comment:
> > > I'm surprised that NT and Windows 2000, and every other Unicode OS, is
> > > missing a
> > > Unicode keyboard editor utility (and a utility to display keyboard
> > mappings
> > > to
> > > Unicode values). There are only a couple of 3rd-party products and
> > they're
> > > not that
> > > good, and this is actually a much easier program to write than word
> > > processing (which
> > > already exists).
> > >
> > > Keep up the good work,
> > > Manuel Lopez
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
