Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The first question has some reasonable answers:
One answer I didn't notice in your list was that applications might want to display the shift state. For example, in one of my Emacs input methods I use ";c" to type 'ĉ'. When I type ';' I see ';' underlined to remind me that the ';' might be combined with the following character. Back in the 1980s I had an Amstrad PCW running LocoScript 2. You switched between Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and symbol keyboards using Alt-F1, etc, and there was some kind of indication on the screen of which keyboard was currently selected, if I remember correctly. (LocoScript 2 also let you combine any diacritic with any base character and had more diacritics than TeX ...) -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
