In article <[email protected]>, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:
> How does quail use the information about the layout of the keyboard?
> All I see in the definition of the input method is a list of
> characters and their translations. Why should it matter which
> keyboard key produced a character?
Because, for an input method simulating some localized
keyboard, the location of a key is important. For instance,
a user of thai-kesmanee input method expects that he can
input "ด" by pressing a key under his left index finger
while keeping his hands at the normal position on a
keyboard, no matter what key-symbol is printed on that key
('F' in qwerty keyboard, 'U' in dvorak keyboard).
> Assuming that the key that produces `a' in English should
> always produce SHIN in Hebrew, why should it matter what
> is the number of that key on the keyboard and what is its
> location?
Currently hebrew input method is defined as below:
(quail-define-package
"hebrew" "Hebrew" "ע" nil "Hebrew (ISO 8859-8) input method.
Based on Hebrew typewriter keys.
Hebrew letters are assigned to lowercases.
" nil t t t t nil nil nil nil nil t)
^-->KBD-TRANSLATE
It is defined with KBD-TRANSLATE arg t.
------------------------------------------------------------
KBD-TRANSLATE non-nil means input characters are translated from a
user's keyboard layout to the standard keyboard layout. See the
documentation of `quail-keyboard-layout' and
`quail-keyboard-layout-standard' for more detail.
------------------------------------------------------------
If your assumption above is true, i.e. the key location is
not important for hebrew input method, it should be defined
with KBD-TRANSLATE nil.
As I have no knowleget about hebrew input method, I don't
know which is correct; it is simulating a localized keyboard
layout or not.
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Kenichi Handa
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