Re: Keyboard layout detection not working??

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Please ignore my email. I wrote it when I woke up :)

You DO need however, in order to hebrew to work - to set the LANG variable to 
hebrew: LANG=he_IL wine etc....

Hetz

On Saturday 01 June 2002 11:30, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Further research revealed the problem, and here is a working patch. I
> > > would like to both draw your attention to the reasons, and point out one
> > > thing in this patch that requires attention.
> >
> > And I tried your patch Shachar and there some interesting results...
> >
> > Here is my setxkbmap line to change between hebrew and english:
> > setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll il
> >
> > This lets me switch from english to hebrew...
> >
> > Then I tried the wine's internal wine's notepad to do a test:
> > LANG=he_IL wine notepad
> > at first the keyboard switch doesn't behave well (you got capital english
> > letters and only after few times you get hebrew) I can type hebrew no
> > problem all..
> >
> > However, with programs like Word, excel etc.. - the problem persists -
> > keyboard switching doesn't impress the application and even when you
> > switch - you're in english mode...
> >
> > Have you tried some apps with this? if so, which ones?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hetz
>
> Hi Hetz,
>
> I believe the problems you are experiencing have nothing to do with the
> keyboard layout problem, but with the keyboard switching detection. I am
>
> quoting paragraph #3 from my first email in this thread:
> > - There does not appear to be any code that detects layout changes
> > in X11, and sends the apropriate WM_INPUTLANGCHANGE message. I
> > understood that implementing an event trigered by X layout change
> > is a difficult matter, but it is highly necessary for my BiDi
> > support (many programs, including Office, know the current
> > direction, and have visual representation when it changes. Not
> > implementing this message may prove to be problematic in that
> > respect).
> > I currently don't have the capacity to go after this particular
> > problem, but if it remains unsolved by the time it becomes crucial
> > to me, I will. If anyone has any leads on solving this problem,
> > please let me know. I have entered bug #735 on this issue.
>
> I'm afraid that my BiDi attempts are at a rather early stage. If you
> want to follow them, or contribute (and the testing you are performing
> certanly count as contribution), you can add youself as CC to bug #609
> (http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609)
>
> Also, I believe that this patch is mostly about correctly matching the
> returned character (in ISO-8859-8, in my patch's case) with the scan
> code Windows programs expect under such situations. As such, it has
> mostly to do with games and such.
>
> On a similar note, however. Which version of Notepad are you using? What
> version of Windows did it come from?
>             Shachar