On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Bharathi S wrote: > Today at 5:01pm, Jacky, Lau mailed to Me too : > > > Right, does your languague is realy some complex one?? > > Yes, Highly complex in both INPUT(KB) and OUTPUT(Display) side :(
Input may not be as complex as you think although output rendering certainly is. If mechanical typewriters worked for Indic scripts, it seems to me that Xkb approach should work as well. <digression> Korean Hangul being as alphabetic as Indic scripts, the same can be said about it. Koreans had used 3-set keyboard mechanical typewriters for a few decades when the dictatorship in 1970's introduced 2-set KBD against advices of a number of experts including the inventor of 3-set KBD (he even had to leave the country for a while.) and made things complex. While 3-set KBD can easily be translated into Xkb, 2-set KBD requires 'intelligence' of electronic typewriters and input methods later. Unfortunately, I'm one of those many people 'spoiled' by the 'intelligence' of input methods. (for Hanja input, we need input methods anyway)</digression> You appear to think that keyboard sequences have to be directly mapped to 'glyph indices' of some custom-encoded fonts. I could well be downright wrong and I'll stand corrected in that case. However, I found that at least for Hindi either Xmodmap or Xkb works. See the following: http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix/doc/HOWTO/Devanagari-HOWTO-2.html Wouldn't that also work for Tamil and other languages/scripts in India? Actually, some people posted Xkb layouts for a few Indic scripts to this list. BTW, if you still think you need a complex input method, you may also want to explore 'input module' of Gtk2. It's not as universal a solution as XIM because it's limited to Gtk2 applications, but _might_ be easier to work on than XIM. > Our Languages ( 15 Languages ) is based on single encoding(ISCII) and > different encodings also(TSCII etc ). But during display depending upon > the current language the encoded codes are rendered. IMHO, you should base your work on Unicode. AFAIK, the encoding scheme of Indic scripts in Unicode is almost identical to that of ISCII but with distinct/disjoint code spaces allocated for each of 15 scripts/languages. The use of ISCII, I believe, has to be limited to (internally) taking advantage of non-Unicode-encoded fonts for Indic scripts. Jungshik _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
