Word in Hebrew and Wine

[Shachar Shemesh]

Hi all,

I think I found what is needed in order to implement my suggested 
keyboard support. The only drawback is that it requires the use of XKB, 
which is not a given in all Xservers. Personally, I find it hard to 
believe that there are many X servers that don't support it (the 
extension is from 1997).

Anyone has anything to say in terms of policy? Suggestions?

                Shachar

Shachar Shemesh wrote:

> I was aiming for the following path:
>
>   1. Detect current keymap. Try to do that independantly for each
>      keymap group (i.e. - have an array - group0 - US, group1 - IL,
>      group2 - RU).
>      The keys will be stored inside the keyboard map in Unicode. I'm
>      not 100% sure how to do that stage yet, but I do have a relatively
>      non-efficient way of doing that to fall back to, if necessary.
>   2. Trap the X events that notify about group changes, and pass them
>      on as Windows messages to applications.
>   3. When an X event arrives, convert the raw virtual key to a raw
>      Windows key, and pass it on. Do not convert to ASCII, ANSI, or any
>      other non-layout information. In essence, the keyboard mapping is
>      not used at this stage at all.
>   4. When an application asks to convert the raw Windows key to
>      ANSI/Unicode, look up the result in the current keymap.
>
> Saving the conversion to ANSI and back should detach us some way from 
> the current Unix locale. In particular, I want Unicode Windows 
> applications to work, with the same level of non-regard to current 
> locale as they have on Windows.
>
>           Shachar
>


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Shachar Shemesh
Open Source integration consultant
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