On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:38:54PM -0500, Maiorana, Jason wrote:
> >You can, you just select which keyboard/input method you like to use
> >from the keyboard menu (which list all the installed/enabled ones)!
> >But wait... That's Windows... And Mac...
>
> No you cant. I have access to a windows machine, with global IME installed.
> The keyboard is rearranged into dvorak layout, and all other input methods
> aside from english fail.
Yes, you can; I did it to type this: 漢字. Nobody's claiming it's perfect
or bug-free, but it's undisputably there and useful to many people who need
to input text in multiple languages. Imperfection is not nonexistance.
> The windows model is not perfect, imo. (Beyond-BMP codepoints
> may break many applications, etc.)
I don't see how Windows's use of UTF-16 is relevant to the discussion (the
ability to change keyboard mappings on the fly). The only point was that
it's taking X a while to do things that Windows has been doing gracefully
(relatively speaking) since at least Win2K.
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