For Maltese characters, having not Maltese keyboard driver, it is a requirement I guess Eric Michael (michka) Kaplan (26/07/2000 01:25): >I am not an MS employee, so I cannot speak for them. But here are my >unofficial thoughts on it.... > >The OS treats this like any device driver, as far as I can see. Its not the >sort of thing that would be expected to be given out with the standard >operating system. I mean, even adding a keyboard beyond your default is >something that is uncommon, let alone wanting to create new keyboards or >modify existing ones. This is not a common user requirement. > >michka > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Manuel Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Magda Danish >(Unicode)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 5:34 PM >Subject: Re: Unicode keyboard editor utility > > >> Thanks for the reply. I don't anything about the work that would be >required, but >> all I'm suggesting is a utility either to create a custom keyboard file or >to edit a >> given keyboard file (not one to map a Unicode value on a key in all >possible keyboard >> layouts!). Is even this a major undertaking? >> >> So far, I've found exactly two programs that do that with Windows 2000 and >Unicode, >> one of them edits a given keyboard file, the other (in beta) creates a new >keyboard >> file, and both leave something to be desired. >> >> Edit existing keyboard: >> http://solair.eunet.yu/~minya/Programs/klm/klm.html >> >> Creates one (still in beta, ver. 5 beta 2 will work in Win 2k ): >> http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/ >> >> p.s. I'm not sure why a utility like this is not included as part of the >os, since I >> expect the os maker already must have one. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Magda Danish (Unicode)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Unicode List" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: "Manuel Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 20:06 >> Subject: Re: Unicode keyboard editor utility >> >> >> > I do not see a practical way to handle such a utility..... take (for >> > example) Windows 2000, with its almost 100 keyboard layouts, each having >1-8 >> > different physical mappings depending on the state of shift keys, etc. >up at >> > >> > http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/keyboards.asp >> > >> > This means that there are probably several hundred keyboards that >contain >> > the Unicode character U+0041, for example. How can you have a simple >mapping >> > in an environment like that? >> > >> > michka >> > >> > Michael Kaplan >> > Trigeminal Software, Inc. >> > http://www.trigeminal.com/ >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Magda Danish (Unicode)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 3:53 PM >> > Subject: Unicode keyboard editor utility >> > >> > >> > > Anyone knows about such a utility? >> > > >> > > -----Original Message----- >> > > From: Manuel Lopez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> > > Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 9:22 PM >> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > Subject: Minor issues >> > > >> > > >> > > [....] >> > > >> > > A side comment: >> > > I'm surprised that NT and Windows 2000, and every other Unicode OS, is >> > > missing a >> > > Unicode keyboard editor utility (and a utility to display keyboard >> > mappings >> > > to >> > > Unicode values). There are only a couple of 3rd-party products and >> > they're >> > > not that >> > > good, and this is actually a much easier program to write than word >> > > processing (which >> > > already exists). >> > > >> > > Keep up the good work, >> > > Manuel Lopez >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> >> >> >
