Re: [cssed-devel] Changes in the 0.3.0 release

[Iago R. <iag...@hi...>]

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 17:27, Mich=C3=A8le Garoche wrote:
> Le 26 sept. 2004, =C3=A0 16:42, Iago Rubio a =C3=A9crit :
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> > On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 15:03, Iago Rubio wrote:
> >>  It will have this layout:
> >>
> >> ....
> >> Force Encoding
> >> Character Set
> >> 	> ANSI
> >> 	> Western Europe
> >
> > Sorry, this is bogus. East europe, not West europe.
> Then Eastern Europe, though it is generally not noted as is. But which=20
> language do you mean Cyrillic?

I did not mentioned Cyrilic. We support Cyrillic ( and also Greek,
Coptic, Armenian, Hebrew, and Arabic)  with UTF-8, but no KOI8.

> And ANSI is not ISO, then there are a bunch of ISO-xxx.

But ISO is ASCII, that's the ANSI standard  :)

All ISO character sets contain the normal ASCII characters at positions
32 to 126.

>  What happens=20
> when people with Japanese keyboard wants to write a text in German,=20
> Swedish, etc...?

Japanese keyboards usually are bilingual.=20
http://www.datacal.com/dce/catalog/japanese-keyboards_l.htm

As you can see, in the keyboard there are only few hiragana characters,
as there's no keyboard where it can fit the 3.000 kanjis needed to read
the  newspaper.

That's why input method programs (IM) are needed even with a japanese
keyboard.

IMs are called throught keystrokes.=20

Meanwhile you don't call the IM, it will not start to write Asian
characters.

So to write any non asian language, with Japanese keyboards, the user
just needs to type :)=20
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