Re: User interface for keyboard input

2002-07-18 Thread Doug Ewell
Martin Kochanski wrote: > One might phrase the question like this: "If I sat you down in front > of a program on a Windows machine, and asked you to type an alpha, > what would you try first?". That's easy. I'd hold down Alt and type 2 2 4 on the keypad. (hee hee hee) What's that? You want

Re: User interface for keyboard input

2002-07-18 Thread Doug Ewell
Otto Stolz wrote: >> - although we can take it for granted that you have not >> got a keyboard with Greek letters enabled, > > Why not? It's so easy, in contemporary Windows versions. > Why shouldn't I install a couple of keyboard layouts for the scripts > I am going to type, on my Windows syste

RE: User interface for keyboard input

2002-07-18 Thread Alain LaBonté 
A 09:26 2002-07-18 -0700, Addison Phillips [wM] a écrit : >Hi Martin, > >I install the Chinese Unicode keyboard myself... > >When I confronted this specific problem recently in our products, the main >solution I adopted was to allow \u notation as input (of course, our >products are for develo

Re: User interface for keyboard input

2002-07-18 Thread Otto Stolz
Martin Kochanski wrote: > "If I sat you down in front of a program on a Windows machine, and asked you > to type an alpha, what would you try first?". - Klick on the white DE on blue background (indicating my German keyboard layout), in the task bar, - select Greek keyboard layout, - Type

RE: User interface for keyboard input

2002-07-18 Thread Addison Phillips [wM]
Hi Martin, I install the Chinese Unicode keyboard myself... When I confronted this specific problem recently in our products, the main solution I adopted was to allow \u notation as input (of course, our products are for developers...) Hope that helps. Addison Addison P. Phillips Director