RE: Input method for Unicode characters

From: Boris Kortiak (boriskor_at_boriskortiak.com)
Date: Sun Nov 16 2003 - 18:32:51 EST

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    There may be a way to simplify the keyboards. There used to be a tool that
    would allow you to reassign which character was displayed when you typed a
    particular key. It should be fairly straightforward in XP and Win2k, but I
    don't know how to do it in those. Like you I run multiple languages (11)
    with multiple keyboards for each language (4 for English). XP is very
    flexible in how this works and it should be fairly easy to muck up a
    keyboard layout to make Cyrillic and Tamil easier to type. Of course, you
    could always hunt & peck until you learn one of the standard layouts :).
    Try asking on one of the Windows mailing lists about how to set up
    keyboards.

    Another option that is available is to use the entities for the Unicode
    characters. I haven't tried this myself yet, but it isn't too hard to test.
    Just type in Ї (hex 0407) to get the Ukrainian Cyrillic letter that
    looks like a double dotted i. You may then have to go through a save and
    reopen process to get to the document or a save and then edit it in Notepad
    to convert the extraneous & entities to &.

    Let me know what you find.

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Peter Jacobi [mailto:pj_at_walter-graphtek.com]
    > Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 7:48 AM
    > To: Boris Kortiak; abiword-user_at_abisource.com
    > Subject: RE: Input method for Unicode characters
    >
    > Hi Boris,
    >
    > > Are you entering symbols only or something different? If it is
    > something
    > > different, please provide information about what you are doing.
    >
    > I wanted to enter some Cyrillic characters by Unicode number or other
    > methods. (I know that I could have added a Cyrillic keyboard layout
    > to my regional options, but I already have eight different ones
    > and I wouldn't know to how to use it.)
    >
    > I also tested with some Tamil character (U+0B80..U+0BFF
    > range).
    >
    > I can input Tamil using 'hackish' fonts which map them to the
    > U+0080..U+00FF range, but I cannot input true Unicode Tamil.
    >
    > Using cut+paste I can import Unicode Tamil text and the rendering is
    > fine.
    >
    > Regards,
    > Peter Jacobi
    >

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