On 07/02/2021 00:18, Tim Cross wrote:
I've not seen many
editors with the same level of support for different alphabets and
writing direction as Emacs and there are many keyborad layouts which
don't include the '$' key. At the end of the day, it really just comes
down to mapping of key codes - the 'image' on the key itself (and even
the location) is largely irrelevant.
To have reliable shortcuts, it necessary to have a way to obtain
"canonical" Latin key when another layout is chosen. E.g. comma position
depends on layout. In emacs only key symbol from current layout is
available, information on symbols in other groups for the same keycode
is lost. Even layout change events are hidden from lisp code.
Were you able to get any assistance with this on the Emacs devel list?
There was a thread in 2009, no results however. Unsure if it reasonable
to raise the question again without a proposal how to solve the problem.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-05/msg00031.html
I have found a couple more workarounds on github. E.g. listening dbus
messages related to keyboard layout changes (specific to particular
desktop environment). In some sense they are similar to mine setup.
Like it or not, computers are very english centric (and US english at
that).
In gnome some Xkb-related features suitable for layouts (groups) are
broken due to their focus on input methods for Chinese-Korean-Japanese
scripts.
