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- From: cq377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David C. Williss)
- Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
- Subject: Keyboard entry for other languanges
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.110326.28351@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 11:03:26 GMT
- Sender: onoe@sm.sony.co.jp (Atsushi Onoe)
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- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Approved: michael@sm.sony.co.jp
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- Date: 27 Dec 1992 06:02:17 GMT
- Message-Id: <1hjgt9INNch8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu
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- Hi all,
-
- I work for a software company which is using X and Motif for the user
- interface (Not CWRU, that's just where my news feed is)
-
- My question regards text entry for other languages (ie: non-english)
- How does one enter the characters which aren't part of the english
- language into a text widget? I'm not talking about accented characters
- and such, I'm talking about languages with vastly different character
- sets such as chineese. I've seen a Chineese version of Microsoft
- Windows(tm) and it has a special method for entering characters using
- some phonetic method. As you type the word phonetically, it presents
- you with a bunch of glyphs that may represent what you're typing, then
- you pick that one.
-
- This is important to us because our software is currently used in
- about 40 countries, most of which don't speak English. Most of
- the people operating the software can muddle their way though it,
- but prefer it to be in their own language, and _reqire_ their output
- to be in their own language.
-
- Also, what can anybody tell me about the XmText widget in Motif 1.2?
- I've read that it can take 16-bit character sets, which are needed
- for such language problems.
-
-
- --
- -Dave Williss
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