| From: | Marc Culler |
| Date: | 15 Sep 2000 at 02:09:41 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Re: Localization |
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:25:01AM +0200, St�phane Campan wrote:
> le 15/09/00 0:42, Jesse McClusky a �crit :
>
> >> From: "Rafael Vicar�a Alloza" <rafael.vicaria@ibm.net>
> >>
> >> BTW, is the greatest localization system in any OS AFAIK going to be
> >> in the new Amig as welll or is it anything even better coming up, like
> >> support
> >> for asian languages, I wonder?
> >
> > Support for multi-byte characters is already in Elate.
> > There will be some type of localization options available
> > under the OE.
>
> I think it would be a good idea to get a quite-opened localization
> system. By opened, I mean also opened to regional languages. There is a sort
> of a boost for regional languages in Europe, and Ami(verse) could be the
> first OS/OE usable for them.
The 16 bit characters are a good thing. But why shouldn't we be able
to have 16 bit characters AND a Meta-key, or left-Amiga and
right-Amiga modifiers for that matter? As it stands now, Elate has
set up the keycodes so the only possible modifiers are Shift, Alt and
Control. With less than 128 keys you have to use Alt to get the rest
of the Latin-1 characters. So you don't get a Meta-key. And no menu
shortcuts with the Amiga key either.
Did you wonder why you have to use the Esc key to get the emacs-like
meta-commands in jove?
- Marc
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