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- From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Advice requested: keyboard programming
- Date: 10 Sep 1992 14:46:55 +0200
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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- Message-ID: <18ng3vINNs1m@smurf.smurf.sub.org>
- References: <1992Aug26.194149.10299@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- In comp.sys.mac.programmer, article <1992Aug26.194149.10299@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
- cuong@haydn.Stanford.EDU (Cuong T. Nguyen) writes:
- >
- > I want to implement a Vietnamese keyboard for the Mac.
-
- No you don't. You want to implement a Vietnamese script for the Mac.
- The difference is that the Mac's Script Manager already supports most of what
- you're trying to do, without ugly hacks like backspace-and-replace.
- You'll have to implement the Vietnamese-specific parts and (of course) create
- one or two Vietnamese fonts.
-
- There already are a few versions of 7.0.1 which do this sort of thing, for
- Thai and Korean; I don't know if any of these are sufficiently close to
- Vietnamese but the mechanics should be similar.
-
- Support for scripts is supposed to be better in System 7.1, currently in
- beta. I haven't been able to try it because I need MacTCP for my "real" work,
- and it's severely incompatible with 7.1. :-(
-
- > An estimate of task difficulty will also be appreciated.
-
- Not that easy. You won't be able to get away with the BS hack; the Mac's not
- Unix, nor is it Windows.
-
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