Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Kayvan A. Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I am unable to produce arabic characters using the latest CVS, | even though it was working perfectly just a day or two ago. | | It looks like some piece of the encoding code was just changed. The code is now setup to handle all latin (almost)

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
The code is now setup to handle all latin (almost) without having to use other fonts thatn latin1. Arabic and I guess also Hebrew suffers under this. Hey, Dekel, what say you? Anyway ... _I_ am not going to do anything with the arabic support since I cannot test it. It more information

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Andre Poenitz
I want to be able to run my English keyboard as is in most applications, and simultaneously be able to do Arabic/Farsi/etc in LyX. aol me too /aol But I also understand it is not The Right Thing and creates a lot of troubles for LyX... I think the situaton is even a bit more complicated.

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Kayvan A. Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | btw. I want to flag all keymaps for removal at a later date. It really | isn't LyX's task to remap the keyboard, that is a task of the desktop. | (And it complicates things a great deal in LyX) | | I don't agree with this. | | I want to be able

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I want to be able to run my English keyboard as is in most applications, | and simultaneously be able to do Arabic/Farsi/etc in LyX. | | aol | me too | /aol | | But I also understand it is not The Right Thing and creates a lot of | troubles for

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:20:04AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Kayvan A. Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | btw. I want to flag all keymaps for removal at a later date. It really | isn't LyX's task to remap the keyboard, that is a task of the desktop. | (And it complicates things a

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Stephan Witt
Andre Poenitz wrote: I want to be able to run my English keyboard as is in most applications, and simultaneously be able to do Arabic/Farsi/etc in LyX. aol me too /aol But I also understand it is not The Right Thing and creates a lot of troubles for LyX... I think the situaton

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Kayvan A. Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Will I be able to do what I do now? | | Write a bit of English, write a translation in Farsi, write more | English, etc. | Just by pressing a key to toggle the keymap? That is how it works in KDE at least. -- Lgb

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Andre Poenitz
No, as I know, it isn't possible. The keyboard mapping is X-Server global. Changes to it are possible with the xmodmap client and all X-clients get an UnmapNotify/MapNotify notify event if the keyboard is changed. But we could have some function within LyX to change this global X keymap to

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I am unable to produce arabic characters using the latest CVS, | even though it was working perfectly just a day or two ago. | | It looks like some piece of the encoding code was just changed. The code is now setup to handle all latin (almost)

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
> > The code is now setup to handle all latin (almost) without having to > use other fonts thatn latin1. Arabic and I guess also Hebrew suffers > under this. Hey, Dekel, what say you? > Anyway ... _I_ am not going to do anything with the arabic support > since I cannot test it. It more

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Andre Poenitz
> I want to be able to run my English keyboard as is in most applications, > and simultaneously be able to do Arabic/Farsi/etc in LyX. me too But I also understand it is not The Right Thing and creates a lot of troubles for LyX... I think the situaton is even a bit more complicated.

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > btw. I want to flag all keymaps for removal at a later date. It really | > isn't LyX's task to remap the keyboard, that is a task of the desktop. | > (And it complicates things a great deal in LyX) | | I don't agree with this. | | I want to be

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > I want to be able to run my English keyboard as is in most applications, | > and simultaneously be able to do Arabic/Farsi/etc in LyX. | | | me too | | | But I also understand it is not The Right Thing and creates a lot of | troubles for LyX... |

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:20:04AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > "Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | > btw. I want to flag all keymaps for removal at a later date. It really > | > isn't LyX's task to remap the keyboard, that is a task of the desktop. > | > (And it

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Stephan Witt
Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > I want to be able to run my English keyboard as is in most applications, > > and simultaneously be able to do Arabic/Farsi/etc in LyX. > > > me too > > > But I also understand it is not The Right Thing and creates a lot of > troubles for LyX... > > I think the

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Will I be able to do what I do now? | | Write a bit of English, write a translation in Farsi, write more | English, etc. | Just by pressing a key to toggle the keymap? That is how it works in KDE at least. -- Lgb

Re: Latest CVS breaks arabic support

2001-05-23 Thread Andre Poenitz
> No, as I know, it isn't possible. The keyboard mapping > is X-Server global. Changes to it are possible with > the xmodmap client and all X-clients get an > UnmapNotify/MapNotify notify event if the keyboard > is changed. But we could have some function within LyX to change this global X