[SCIM] The new features I'm implementing.

[Zhe Su]

Hi,
   IMO, it's the best way to solve this issue, though it's not so easy
:-) So does anybody can give me the typical layouts, including key
mappings and the keyboard images?

Regards
James Su


On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 20:45:08 +0900 (JST), Kenichi Handa <handa at m17n.org> wrote:
> I'm sorry for this very late response.
> 
> 
> 
> In article <419810A6.1080401 at tsinghua.org.cn>, James Su <suzhe at tsinghua.org.cn> writes:
> >   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.
> 
> We can ask a user to specify which keyboard layout he is
> using by showing several typical examples.  If there's no
> matching one, we can show him a layout of non-labelled keys
> and ask him to type a key while putting mouse cursor on each
> key.  That way, we can know what key symbol is sent from
> FontEnd by typing which location of key.  Further more, we
> can ask him to send to us the information about the layout
> created that way to augment our database of keyboard
> layouts.  Yes, making such a GUI interface is not a pleasant
> work, but I think it's quite useful.
> 
> In Emacs, I implemented something like that, but less
> convenient way.  If you are interested in it, see the
> section "Keyboard layout translation handlers" of
> emcas/lisp/international/quail.el.
> 
> ---
> Ken'ichi HANDA
> handa at m17n.org
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