On 24 Jul 2013, at 11:46 AM, Uli Kusterer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Marked text in Cocoa is mainly used by input methods. Primarily with
>>> languages
>>> that have more glyphs than you would have on a keyboard and input is done
>>> in a
>>> form that is analyzed and is provided a set of conversion options. a range
>>> of
>>> input text that is not yet committed is highlighted and commonly sub ranges
>>> can be selected and converted. When conversions are selected and finalized
>>> text is unmarked and ready for committing.
>
>
> Is this the yellow background that one gets for accents? E.g. on a US
> keyboard, when I type Option-`, I get the tick mark with a yellow background,
> indicating I can now type an 'a' for instance to get 'à' ? Is that a good
> example, or is that different again? (Just hoping I can provide an example
> for US and other people and learn something on the way)
That's the intended use, yes.
— F
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