Re: Another --> Re: GtkMovementStep of GtkTextView

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

    >>  Testing with native users.  And also playing with a couple new
    >> Vietnamese word processors while I was in Hanoi last month.  As it was
    >> explained to me, it is very inconvenient to delete the whole vowel when
    >> you only want to change the tone mark (apparently a common
    >> "misspelling").  The responses were inconclusive with regard to the
    >> other pronunciation marks.

    Steve> You write as if there were only one input method in use in
    Steve> Vietnam. When I looked around a call centre in Hanoi about 3 years
    Steve> ago there were operators using different input methods. Some were
    Steve> entering in a way that seemed close to how French might be
    Steve> typed. Others were entering using methods that seemed much more
    Steve> arcane. Perhaps things are shaking out now (I have no idea), but
    Steve> how can you keep everyone happy unless you bury the differences
    Steve> firmly in the input method?

I was under the impression that we were still talking about expected behaviors
when editing scripts, not about the fact that input methods come in many
varieties.

In fact there were three different input methods being used in a small travel
agency I visited in Hanoi.  All of which treated vowels+accent+tone as single
characters.  The travel agents said they were used to it, but it was a little
inconvenient.
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