Text input with keyboard, via input methods (was: turtle ??)

From	Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Text input with keyboard, via input methods (was: turtle ??)
Date	2016-03-10 18:28 +1100
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Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:

> BTW, typing any useful Unicode character is a major unsolved problem.

You typed a good number of Unicode characters in that sentence alone.
ASCII is a simple subset of Unicode.

I suppose you meant to refer to typing some character not mapped to a
single keystroke on a US-English keyboard kayout.

You're right, that is a major problem.

As for how solved it is, that depends on what you're hoping for as a
solution.

The conventional solution, which I find to be quite useful for typing
characters from a great many different writing systems, is an
<URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method> customised to
particular writing systems.

My primary input method is one which lets me type typical English text
and also easily input a broad range of useful characters with a few
mnenonic two- or three-key sequences.

> I have created this text file that contains a lot of unicode
> characters with their code points. Every once in a while I have to
> open the file and copy and paste a character to, say, a Usenet
> posting. Cumbersome but necessary.

Hopefully your operating system has a good input method system, with
many input methods available to choose from. May you find a decent
default there.

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Ben Finney

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turtle ?? Ömer sarı <sari.omer.1989@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 23:39 -0800
  Re: turtle ?? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-03-09 10:06 +0100
    Re: turtle ?? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-09 22:55 +1100
      Re: turtle ?? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 09:24 -0500
      Re: turtle ?? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-03-09 18:14 +0000
        Re: turtle ?? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-10 13:45 +1100
          Re: turtle ?? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 14:47 +1100
            Re: turtle ?? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-10 08:14 +0200
              Re: turtle ?? Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-03-10 08:46 +0200
              Text input with keyboard, via input methods (was: turtle ??) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-10 18:28 +1100
                Re: Text input with keyboard, via input methods (was: turtle ??) Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 23:54 -0800
                Re: Text input with keyboard, via input methods Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-10 20:51 -0800
                Re: Text input with keyboard, via input methods Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 03:46 -0800
                Re: Text input with keyboard, via input methods Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-10 12:51 +0200
                Re: Text input with keyboard, via input methods Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 03:59 -0800
                Re: Text input with keyboard, via input methods Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 09:38 -0500
                Re: Text input with keyboard, via input methods Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-10 17:13 +0200
                Re: Text input with keyboard, via input methods Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 07:19 +1100
                Re: Text input with keyboard, via input methods Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-03-10 21:48 +0000
                Re: Text input with keyboard, via input methods Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-11 00:47 +0200
              Re: turtle ?? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 18:39 +1100
  Re: turtle ?? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-03-09 10:30 -0500

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