On Wednesday 26 March 2003 12:38 pm, 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.
Fail how? Crash, refuse to switch, give wrong input, or what? I've used that setup, including the dvorak keyboard chosen from the Keyboards Control Panel. I had no difficulty switching between Dvorak, QWERTY, Chinese Traditional, Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Ukrainian,...(I was singing with a Russian chorus at the time, and working on lyric sheets, in addition to a Go-related project. There is nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about with languages.) Do you have a hardware Dvorak keyboard? I've done that, too, and never had an input method fail. Switching between Dvorak and QWERTY for Cangjie input is not fun, but it still worked. > The windows model is not perfect, imo. (Beyond-BMP codepoints > may break many applications, etc.) -- Edward Cherlin Generalist & activist--Linux, languages, literacy and more "A knot! Oh, do let me help to undo it!" --Alice in Wonderland -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
