I wish Manuel had mentioned which 3rd-party products he had in mind (I'm
always interested in knowing what's out there). But, a new version of
Tavultesoft Keyboard Manager (aka Keyman) is being developed, and I
understand it should be available by the end of the year.
The new version is supposed to do Unicode (though, obviously, not
necessarily on Win9x/Me). Keyman makes it very easy to create your own
keyboard layouts, and also allows you to do some fairly sophisticated
things - it was originally designed to be able to handle generating
presentation-form-encoded text using custom encodings of complex SE Asian
scripts. So, for example, you could use it to create an input method for a
large character set, such as Ethiopic. (But it doesn't yet do input method
*editors*, i.e. something that handles an intermediate state of text in a
separate editing mini-Window, so it's not really suited to *very large*
character sets, such as CJK.) You could probably also use it to ensure that
the input text is canonically ordered or even in a particular normal form.
Tavultesoft's site is at
- Peter
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Peter Constable
Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA
Tel: +1 972 708 7485
E-mail: <peter_constable@sil.org>
>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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