On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Chris Little <[email protected]> wrote: > This is just a guess, but I suspect it is not being used anywhere by anyone. > SWInputMethod was basically for customized input methods of a very basic > sort. For example, input ' to the IM and get א out. (HebrewMCIM, if it isn't > clear, takes Michigan-Claremont Hebrew encoding and outputs Unicode.) The > use for this would be on systems without an OS-wide non-Latin IM switching > method, or in the case where we just don't want to use or implement IMs > using the OS-supplied methods. > > SWInputMethod could probably be implemented using ICU transliterators, which > would likely be a bit slower and would add a requirement of using ICU. But > doing so would mean not having to write a bunch of classes like HebrewMCIM > for each IM we want to support. > > Troy can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the original purpose of > SWInputMethod and HewbrewMCIM was for a collaborative editor for Project > "eL" (cf. http://www.xml.com/pub/r/915). > > </historyLesson> > > If we really don't intend to use any of this any time soon, it would > probably be a good idea to pull it out of the library, since it's just > taking up space. Or maybe you had an idea for a use for it? >
No, I don't really have a use for it, and I'm all for taking things out that are clearly unmaintained and unused. I just stumbled across it, and was curious about it. I was thinking random thoughts the other day about allowing users to input Greek using b-greek or things like that, but I don't know if this would be at all helpful for that. It's probably better to just provide an on-screen keyboard for greek/hebrew entry. Matthew _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
