Re: Updating gtkimcontextsimple.c (bug #321896)



Tor Lillqvist, le Fri 22 Feb 2008 10:43:15 +0200, a écrit :
> >  Unicode's combining characters are
> >  supposed to be typed after the base letter, while dead keys are typed  before.
> 
> I don't think how you *type* stuff on a keyboard is something Unicode
> attempts to say anything about.

Yes, but what Simos was proposing was to assign unicode combining
accents to keys, which would precisely mean to type them after the base
letter.

> I don't see any problem in having various software layers handle dead
> keys so that they turn into combining characters which then are placed
> in the generated stream of Unicode code points *after* the base letter
> which they apply to.

That's exactly what I think too.

Samuel


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