[SCIM] The new features I'm implementing.

[James Su]

Hi,
  It's good idea. I'm just wondering where I can find the commonly used 
keyboard layouts information, including the mapping tables and pictures? 
And how about user customized keyboard? And how can we know the 
currently used keyboard layout? Because you know, not all FrontEnds can 
get the hardware code of a key, we can only use the key symbols 
generated by FrontEnds instead of hardware keycodes. So we are unable to 
know the physical position of a key by its key symbol.

Regards
James Su

Kenichi Handa wrote:

>In article <278a3d0411060720b637948 at mail.gmail.com>, Zhe Su <james.su at gmail.com> writes:
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>>  Currently I'm implementing the following features in the next major
>>SCIM release:
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>>5. Keyboard Layout remapping, eg. remap QWERTZ, Dovrak layouts to QWERTY. (TODO)
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>There are two kinds of input methods:
>(1) based on a character generated by typing a key
>(2) based on a location of a typed key
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>For (1), such a remapping should not be done.  For instance,
>m17n-latn-post generates a-grave by typing the sequence
>"a`", and that should be done regardless of the location of
>keys "a" and "`".  Most input methods based on
>roman-transliteration are in this category.
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>For (2), such a remapping is mandatory.  For instance,
>m17n-sk-kdb (simulating Slovak keyboard layout) generates
>o-circumflex by typing ";" on normal querty keyboard, and
>that should be done even if one type a key at the same
>location on a keyboard that doesn't generate ";" by that
>key.  Most input methods simulating a localized keyboard are
>in this category.  All m17n-based input methods in this
>category currently assumes VT100 keyboard layout.
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>To distinguish them, each input method has to provide
>information about the necessity of keyboard remapping.
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>I was going to provide the facility of keyboard remapping in
>the m17n-lib itself, but if SCIM is going to support it,
>I'll make a new API something like below:
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>MSymbol minput_keyboard_type (MInputMethod *im);
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>It returns Mnil when IM doesn't require keyboard remapping.
>Otherwise, it returns a symbol representing a type of
>keyboard IM assumes.
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>What do you think?
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>Ken'ichi HANDA
>handa at m17n.org
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