Re: Multilingual keyboard support on Apple IIGS

[Pim Blokland <nipp@plane.nl>]

In article <20000116033843.23178.00000898@ng-fp1.aol.com>, 
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> Pim Blokland <nipp@nipp.nl> wrote:
> 
> >Or do you mean that you want your keyboard to do things the Mac can, 
> >like generate a � by pressing option-u and then I?
> 
> I thought the IIGS does this with the standard OS?  I know I
> can type in French and generate all the accented characters
> using option key combinations.

No, not all of them. Try the example above and find out it does not 
work. The standard translations table does not include support for most 
of the accented uppercase letters. Lowercase works fine, but you cannot 
make uppercase by using the normal combinations. For example, to make an 
� you cannot press option-i E, but you must type a silly non-mnemonic 
key like option-T.
Also, there are characters which you can't produce at all from the 
keyboard, like � or � (not that you need those very often, but if would 
have been nice if you could make them).
So if you want to do this, you'll have to create a new keyboard 
translation table. You can create these by using my KTEdit program, 
which is available from http://home.planet.nl/~nipp/downloads.html

P.S. my apologies if those hi-ASCII characters don't appear correctly on 
everybody's screen; they may go through some translation routines to and 
from ISO 8859-1 and some of them may get lost, being as they are, not 
part of ISO 8859-1 or the first 256 characters of Unicode.
-- 
Groetjes, Pim

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