Re: Word in Hebrew and Wine

[Shachar Shemesh]

Hi all,

I think I found what is needed in order to implement my suggested 
keyboard support. The only drawback is that it requires the use of XKB, 
which is not a given in all Xservers. Personally, I find it hard to 
believe that there are many X servers that don't support it (the 
extension is from 1997).

Anyone has anything to say in terms of policy? Suggestions?

Shachar

Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> I was aiming for the following path:
> - Detect current keymap. Try to do that independantly for each
> keymap group (i.e. - have an array - group0 - US, group1 - IL,
> group2 - RU).
> The keys will be stored inside the keyboard map in Unicode. I'm
> not 100% sure how to do that stage yet, but I do have a relatively
> non-efficient way of doing that to fall back to, if necessary.
> - Trap the X events that notify about group changes, and pass them
> on as Windows messages to applications.
> - When an X event arrives, convert the raw virtual key to a raw
> Windows key, and pass it on. Do not convert to ASCII, ANSI, or any
> other non-layout information. In essence, the keyboard mapping is
> not used at this stage at all.
> - When an application asks to convert the raw Windows key to
> ANSI/Unicode, look up the result in the current keymap.
>
> Saving the conversion to ANSI and back should detach us some way from 
> the current Unix locale. In particular, I want Unicode Windows 
> applications to work, with the same level of non-regard to current 
> locale as they have on Windows.
>       Shachar