Re: [OT] multilingual support in MS products (was Re: Kurdish ghayn)

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 01:32:43 EDT

  • Next message: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan: "Re: [OT] multilingual support in MS products (was Re: Kurdish ghayn)"

    Not in any way needed, because you can create custom keyboards now, and no
    "wildcards" are required.

    The issue I was bringing up was a policy relating to existing keyboards --
    they do not change. What a person does with custom keyboard layouts is
    unrelated.

    MichKa

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "John M. Fiscella" <profirst@compuserve.com>
    To: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <michka@trigeminal.com>
    Cc: "John M. Fiscella" <102175.3547@compuserve.com>; <unicode@unicode.org>;
    <unicore@unicode.org>
    Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 10:28 PM
    Subject: Re: [OT] multilingual support in MS products (was Re: Kurdish
    ghayn)

    > Message text written by "Michael \(michka\) Kaplan"
    > >It is never possible to change keyboard layouts in Windows once they have
    > shipped, and it would in any case be inappropriate to use a Dutch-specific
    > convention on an attempted multilingual keyboard.<
    >
    > What about adding one or two wildcard keyboard options to future versions
    > of Windows, where the new keyboards could be replaced with custom
    > keyboards?
    >
    > John F.
    >



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Mon Apr 28 2003 - 02:09:17 EDT