>> 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.
Perhaps I should have said "No, I cant", since i wont switch back to qwerty.
(So from at least one person's POV Global IME doesnt work whatsoever :)
>> 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.
Many applications which do support "unicode" in windows still cling to
the notion that it is USC-2, and not UTF-16. So the issue is that it
doesnt support UTF-16 well in many of the multitudes of apps which
purportedly support unicode. And I havent even touched upon other
inconsistencies, such as the backslash glyph showing up as a En currency
signin Japanese text, or the non-standard vagaries of how to transfer
unicode text across the clipboard which seem to contradict docmentation.
All in all, though youre right that there is some catching up to be done...
--
Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels
Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
