Re: Japanese IME?

From	Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl>
Subject	Re: Japanese IME?
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Date	2012-03-22 10:04 +0100
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In article <a224837352.pnyoung@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>,
   Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> wrote:

> [...] but there is no way of entering Unicode characters in an app's
> window.

Well, there is, if the RISC OS 5 font manager and the accompanying ROM
fonts are installed, and as long as you don't expect much more than that:
entering Unicode characters in an app's window.

Such window should meet the following two conditions:

- It can be configured to use a font with the \EUTF8 extension,
- it can be set up to expect unicode input, by choosing that font.

Of course, you will need a suitable unicode font (such as Cyberbit), as
well as a suitable keyboard driver.

!Dict, in conjunction with !KeyMap, proves that it can be done in RISC OS.
If you want to give it a try, you can download both programs here:

http://www.riscos.sprie.nl/Downloads/Dict128.zip
http://www.riscos.sprie.nl/Downloads/DKM100.zip

I use !Dict regularly to examine extensive Russian dicts and I can tell you
that it's a real joy to be able to type the needed unicode Russian
characters as easy as the normal Latin1 characters.

Principally, the Dict/KeyMap approach could be used for real text editors
as well, although I suspect that there will be some serious issues
concerning printing and exchangeability with other systems.

Having said all that, entering Japanese is still out of the question, at
least as far as !KeyMap is concerned.

Kind regards,
Paul Sprangers

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    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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