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Re: Japanese IME?

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In message <a224837352.pnyoung@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>
          Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> wrote:

> On 20 Mar 2012  Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:53:01 -0700 (PDT), w.blatchley@yahoo.com wrote:

>>> there's no overall integration into the WIMP that I'm aware of.

>> Which leads on to thinking... How does one pass/receive Unicode
>> characters? Is it repeated keypress events with codes < 256? (will
>> complicate keyhandlers) Is it a keypress with codes > 256?
>> (complicated by the passing of function keys)

>> Is RISC OS 5.19 capable of working with Unicode? I selected alphabet
>> UTF8, but entering characters into !Edit by numeric keypad (226 156
>> 152), I get little characters C3A2 C29C C298 in system text, and
>> nothing in Trinity. It is supposed to be a close-window 'X' thing.

> AIUI RISC OS 5, and a suitably hacked RISC OS 4, can display Unicode
> characters in NetSurf (I can send Rick a screenshot of a Japanese page
> if he's interested), but there is no way of entering Unicode
> characters in an app's window.

Technically, there is. The RISC OS 5 Wimp can communicate with 
applications in Unicode mode, so you can have an overall system 
operating in Unicode. However, this is not of much interest to 
existing desktop RISC OS users since none of our mainstream 
applications can operate in a Unicode environment. For a start, our 
applications would not know what to do with Unicode input. !Edit 
appears to cope as demonstrated by Rick.

IIRC RISC OS 5 system have been used commercially in Korea in Unicode 
mode, but that only worked because they were closed systems with 
carefully chosen preinstalled software.

-- 
Martin
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Martin Wuerthner         MW Software      http://www.mw-software.com/
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Japanese IME? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 02:00 +0100
  Re: Japanese IME? w.blatchley@yahoo.com - 2012-03-19 11:53 -0700
    Re: Japanese IME? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-20 17:18 +0100
      Re: Japanese IME? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-20 17:26 +0100
        Re: Japanese IME? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-20 18:04 +0100
      Re: Japanese IME? Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> - 2012-03-20 17:22 +0000
        Re: Japanese IME? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-20 19:28 +0100
        Re: Japanese IME? Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-03-22 10:04 +0100

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