Re: Loadable keyboards

[q-funk@megacom.net (Martin-Eric Racine)]

 >> Again, remapping the keyboard should be application-dependant.
 >> Josk gave other reasons about this, and I concur with him.
 >
 >I just like to point out that the *keyboard* should never be touched by
 >applications, but the application is free to remap/translate the incoming
 >characters to another character-set.

Hmm... then, how do you suggest we handle the logistic between:

   keyboard generating "exotic" character, ie:  E-circumflex
to raw email textfile correctly encoded for Latin-1 (ready to send)
to Speedo 16-bit character map for display

While your above statement guarantees things will display right
(you allow conversion for display purposes) it still doesn't
explain how we will achieve "exotic" letter+accent combinations
and correctly output them in our customized text editor, without
having to remap what the keyboard outputs....

Can you be more explicit about how you would do it?


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