Re: multi-lingual support under Unix

[Tomas Frydrych]

> > What we will need is some kind of keyboard switching mechanism
> > that would allow to translate keyboard input into appropriate
> > unicode values based on a language/keyboard the user chooses.
> 
> This is the responsibility of the OS/user-environment as I see it. It is not
> something every application should implement by itself (just think of the
> bloat).
> 

That is fine if the OS provides what you need, but as far as I can 
see Linux does not in this respect (there is a keyboard switching 
utility in KDE, and a very nice one, but I do not seem to be able to 
make it produce characters above 0xFF). If there is an elegant and 
intuitive way to switch keyboards under Linux ouwith AW, then of 
course there is no need to build anything into Abi.

Tomas