Re: Updating gtkimcontextsimple.c (bug #321896)

[Samuel Thibault <samuel thibault ens-lyon org>]

Samuel Thibault, le Thu 21 Feb 2008 22:18:25 +0100, a écrit :
> Note: of course, a potential solution would be to just "forget" about
> dead_circumflex and just always use the combining circumflex,

Oops, no, that can't even work since Unicode's combining characters are
supposed to be typed after the base letter, while dead keys are typed
before.  Just to be clear:

- Users expect their already existing dead keys to act as dead keys,
  i.e. be typed before the base letter on which to put the accent.
- Users don't see the technical difference between î and n̂: it's just
  letters with circumflex above (be they precomposed or not).  And so
  they will very naturally want to just use the existing dead key to
  type n̂.

Samuel