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? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
