Re: Unicode keyboard editor utility

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2000 - 20:06:24 EDT


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)" <v-magdad@microsoft.com>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
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:malopez@email.msn.com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 9:22 PM
> To: e0110@unicode.org; info@unicode.org
> 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
>
>
>



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