Re: keyboard input of arbitrary characters (was Re: Patch: Win32 IME support)

[Mike Nordell]

Paul Rohr wrote:
> I really like the idea of having a keyboard-driven ALT+ mechanism to input
> arbitrary characters, but rather than stick to Windows-specific codepage
> conventions, wouldn't we want to somehow specify *Unicode* characters as
the
> alternative to ANSI?

I think that's the job of any IME, or do you from the top of your head
remember the decimal representation of e.g 0xe000 (start of user defined
chars I think)? :-)

> Just a thought.  In any event, I'd happily give up the existing ALT+1,2,3
> keybindings if that's what's needed to get a mechanism like this
implemented
> in a clean XP fashion.

I think they can coexist. Windows (or rather, the IBM-"compatible" x86 PC,
it's a BIOS thingie I think) only allow this numeric input using the numeric
keypad.

/Mike