On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> "M.P.N. Peters" wrote on 2002-09-02 12:10 UTC: > > Recently I found out about Unicode and UTF-8. Unfortunately, it raise > > s a lot of questions. My first question is, how can I, with a limited > > (= qwerty) keyboard that can generate only about 100 scancodes (I > > think), produce all the keycodes needed to reach for example the phon- .. > - For more rarely required symbols (e.g., mathematical notation, > for many people typically also phonetic alphabet), it might be > a sufficient entry method to chose these with a mouseclick from > an on-screen menue. Xterm allows you to do this already today > via the cut&paste mechanism. Just keep a short file that contains > neatly arranged the Unicode characters that you need to enter most > frequently in your work, and cut&paste from there. That's the > technique I find myself using most frequently. One can also use 'ucm' (http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/ucm-0.3.tar.gz) by Juliusz for this purpose. > - Have in the keyboard driver a key combination that initiates > hexadecimal entry of a Unicode character, as a fallback mechanism > for expert users As you know well, it's implemented by some application programs (e.g. Yudit and Vim). Having this in the keyboard driver may be a good idea. Some MS Windows applications using 'richtext edit' control (or sth. like that) have this where 'Alt-X' followed by 4 hex digit produces a Unicode character. There's even an ISO standard for this. It's very generic and Yudit, Vim and MS Windows method are all compliant to the standard. Jungshik Shin -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
