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Re: [m17n-list] Cedilla


From: K. Handa
Subject: Re: [m17n-list] Cedilla
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 23:21:15 +0900

In article <address@hidden>, Florêncio Neves <address@hidden> writes:

> I thought a little more about this and I concluded that the most
> reasonable thing to do here is to provide a faithful copy of
> Microsoft's US International keyboard layout.

> This is a keyboard layout that allows you to insert all Latin-1
> (ISO-8859-1) characters, and nothing else.  Besides solving the
> cedilla issue, it has a nice balance between coverage and
> intrusiveness.  You can get all of the most common accented characters
> used in Western European languages ('a to get an á, "a for ä, etc),
> but lacks inexistent combinations in those languages ('s does not
> produce ś, for example).  This is handy for people who type a mixture
> of English (where the sequences 's and 't occur frequently but there
> is no ś) and some other Western European language.

It is ok to provide a latin-1-only version of latn-pre input
method, but could you suggest a concrete keymaps?

> A description of this layout can be found in several places:
>  * http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards1.asp
>  * http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/goglobal/keyboards/kbdusx.html
>  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#US-International

Input methods in those page also use Alt, AltGr, RightALt.
Are you suggesting to support them too?

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Kenichi Handa
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