From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Another input method feature needed
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:18:38 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ocf7capd.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1OPlTE-00074k-64@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman writes:
> It would be nice to have a mode in which you can browse through all
> the various character sets, move to a character you are interested in,
> and ask how to input it.
A naive implementation won't cut it. There are an *awful lot* of
characters, and browsing gets painful if you do it by Unicode blocks
unless you already know pretty much exactly what you're looking for.
Eg, "accented Latin" requires browsing through maybe 700 characters,
and they all start to look alike after the first two rows. It's easy
to miss what you're looking for.
Besides information on Unicode blocks (which should be already
available), I would suggest using an NFD decompostion, and then allow
the user to select components (based characters and composing forms,
eg, turning the Angstrom symbol into an A and a circle).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-19 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-13 8:13 Feature needed Richard Stallman
2010-06-14 15:35 ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-14 16:13 ` Davis Herring
2010-06-15 9:35 ` James Cloos
2010-06-15 10:22 ` Miles Bader
2010-06-15 12:28 ` Geoff Gole
2010-06-16 10:57 ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-16 14:25 ` Geoff Gole
2010-06-17 10:46 ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-15 12:45 ` James Cloos
2010-06-16 3:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-16 6:14 ` Daniel Clemente
2010-06-16 12:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-17 4:24 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-06-17 10:45 ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-16 6:50 ` Miles Bader
2010-06-16 11:43 ` James Cloos
2010-06-18 6:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-17 8:01 ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-18 1:47 ` Miles Bader
2010-06-18 12:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-06-17 8:01 ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-17 8:49 ` Miles Bader
2010-06-17 19:26 ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-18 7:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-18 8:37 ` Miles Bader
2010-06-18 23:59 ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-18 23:59 ` Another input method feature needed Richard Stallman
2010-06-19 8:47 ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-19 11:13 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-06-19 14:08 ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-19 18:16 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-06-19 20:48 ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-20 4:08 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-06-20 21:28 ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-20 17:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-20 21:34 ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-25 12:08 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-06-28 21:19 ` Juri Linkov
2010-07-01 0:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-02 20:52 ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-19 23:37 ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-20 21:42 ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-21 12:09 ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-21 12:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-06-19 15:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2010-06-19 16:03 ` Miles Bader
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