I should add that for that project, since they did not have Windows 2000 but
instead had NT4, the actual work ended up being to support a Georgian
keyboard layout on NT4 (the argument was that as long as it was mucking with
the uppercase, why not muck with the lowercase, too? <g>). Mainly liturgical
documents (I do not think khutsuri has any other real usage), but they used
the faux layout for modern ones as well once they found out I could support
it.
It happened during a time that I was learning about the language and proved
to be a wonderful technical project to immerse myself in. I do admit
"stealing" the layout from Windows 2000, but I believe they got it from
standard Georgian usage, anyway. :-)
michka
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <michka@trigeminal.com>
To: "Magda Danish (Unicode)" <v-magdad@microsoft.com>; "Unicode List"
<unicode@unicode.org>; "Irakli Tskhvedadze" <asrios@ip.osgf.ge>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: Is there a keyboard layout driver supported for Georgian?
> Windows 2000 actually has a Georgian keyboard layout, and a font that many
> people in Georgia (and also I) find more visually pleasing than Arial
> Unicode MS (Sylfaen). See
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/keyboards.asp
>
> for the layout. Note that the keyboard layout and font only support
> mkhedruli, not khutsuri (though for one client I needed to support
khutsuri
> and did so through an owner draw control that simply took the
> non-functioning shift key and gave it a function).
>
> If I thought there was more demand, I would be trying to sell it. <g>
>
> 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: Thursday, August 10, 2000 3:52 PM
> Subject: Is there a keyboard layout driver supported for Georgian?
>
>
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Irakli Tskhvedadze [mailto:asrios@ip.osgf.ge]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 11:42 AM
> > To: info@unicode.org; errata@unicode.org
> > Subject: ASRIOS-Georgia
> >
> >
> > Dear Sir,
> >
> > ASRIOS is a Georgian company. For our projects we need Georgian language
> >
> > which is supported by Unicode. We have standard Arial Unicode MS that
> > has Georgian language inside, BUT there is no keyboard layout driver
> > supported for Georgian language.
> >
> > Could you please support us with the answer on this question.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Irakli Tskhvedadze
> > Vice-President of the Association of System Reforms and
> > Informatization of Organizational Structures
> >
> >
> >
>
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