Comments on: Improving input method support in GTK+-based apps

By: Mi blog lah! » task update (el)

Mi blog lah! » task update (el) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:04:58 +0000

[...] patch για την υποστήριξη του πολυτονικού από το GTK+· λόγω του σχεδόν κλειστού παραθύρου για εισαγωγή νέων [...]

By: simos

simos — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:44:05 +0000

Sergey: Thanks!

Pádraig: Thanks for the link.

Данило: It appears doable to add this support once the patch gets included. If there is a way (using glib-provided functions) to determine if a sequence of Cyrillic characters is in a valid decomposed form, then this can be added with a few lines of code. I believe there is no such thing, so the ideal solution would be to add a new table using data from NormalisationTest.txt (ftp.unicode.org), targeting those languages that are really affected (because the file is sort of huge).

By: Данило

Данило — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:34:46 +0000

Hey Simos, does this mean we’re finally going to get support for multi-char (decomposed, those which can’t be composed) accenting as well? (i.e. what Xcompose supports since ages ago)

That’s a must for Cyrillic and many other languages since Unicode is not including many of the accented characters, yet they are needed.

By: Pádraig Brady

Pádraig Brady — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:02:26 +0000

Nice info thanks!
I’m always surprised at how useful
python is for manipulating unicode.

A few years ago I noticed the differences between the X and GTK input methods.
It’s great to see this being finally resolved.

By: Sergey Udaltsov

Sergey Udaltsov — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:26:59 +0000

Congratulations on getting into Planet GNOME!