On 2011-05-06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 06/05/2011 21:18, Guenter Milde a écrit : >>> I am sure Qt gives us this information. We should react to OS-level >>> language change. This is probably trivial.
>> There are some tricky points: the OS typically switches keyboard >> layout, but the mapping of keyboard-layout to intended document >> language is ambiguous. > My ideaq was to use QApplication::keyboardInputLocale and hook to the > event sent when this changes. >> For languages using different scripts, I like the idea to set up a >> secondary (and maybe tertiary ...) language: >> Each language setting can be connected to a script, using this script >> would automatically switch the document language, if a letter from the >> the specified script is used (using the default language for >> non-specified characters like punktuation) > Isn't it very complicated? Do we need this? The primary users are > english/hebrew people IMO. And Greek users with traditional (TeX-fonts) LaTeX: If the language is set to Greek, Latin characters are converted to Greek ones. Auto-switching the language would allow expected results with Unicode input of mixed Greek/non-Greek text. Günter
