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