Shachar Shemesh wrote on 2003-07-06:

> Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
>
> >Not all users like programs to be sensitive to their keyboard maps.
> >In particular I hate Word's different treatement of "Hebrew" digits
> >vs.  "English" digits.  I'm not 100% sure about it but I got the
> >impression that it remembers the langauge of anything typed, even
> >digits, and has no way to change it later (except by erasing and
> >re-typing).
> >
> I'm sorry, wine's purpose is not to fix broken Windows applications. The
> current situation with Word is much worse on Wine than it is on Windows,
> and I think I can say quite categorically that I'm aiming for it to be
> exactly the same, not better.
>
OK, valid position.  Note BTW that lazy switching might be easier to
implement - but it's more likely to confuse users that expect it to be
the same as windows so as the *only* mode it's probably a bad idea.

> >I suggest also implementing a mode When wine notifies windows apps of
> >keyboard changes lazily: only when you actually type a letter of a
> >different language wine would tell the application the keyboard layout
> >"has just changed".
> >
> See my answer above.
>
> >  It's hard to decide what to do about digits.  If
> >Word does depend on their language having them hard-coded as e.g.
> >English might do even more damage.  So the best policy seems to be
> >"notify of layout switch if new keysym not found in current layout".
> >
> Now wer'e talking about something else. I have just come back from a
> meeting where I took it upon myself to try and formulate what NEEDS to
> be done. It is highly unlikely to affect Word, but it is likely to
> affect OpenOffice. If you have specific feedback, I would like to hear
> about it.
>
OK, when I have my next session with OO in Hebrew, I'll see if I
dislike anything there...

-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Israel is moving to 7-digit cellphone numbers since the current
6-digit scheme, although prolonged for some time by supernetting,
"comes to the end of its useful life, once again due to address space
exhaustion" [RFC 1606 on IPv9 :-].  Why won't they just use DNS?

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