On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > >> A Turkish keyboard should have dotless and dotted, uppercase and >> lowercase, all easily typed. > > BTW, typing any useful Unicode character is a major unsolved problem. I > have created this text file that contains a lot of unicode characters > with their code points. Every once in a while I have to open the file > and copy and paste a character to, say, a Usenet posting. Cumbersome but > necessary.
Part of the reason it's unsolved is that there are many different ways you might want to identify the character. Are you looking for a glyph by name? Grab the unicodedata module (or the \N escape) and print something out. (Works only if you know the exact name. A fuzzy match tool would be handy, and would be reasonably easy to build on top of unicodedata. Someone's probably done that already, but if not, it wouldn't be a particularly long script.) Are you trying to type text in a different script? Transliteration from/to Latin letters is probably the best way - either as an input method (I can right-click an entry field and select Cyrillic, and then "stop" comes out as "стоп" - hey look, it translated it into Russian as well!), or as a dedicated transliteration script. Trying to type Latin letters with diacriticals? Dead key support is most likely to be the simplest - type the diacritical, then the base letter, and it enters the combined form. Or maybe set your keyboard so that Alt-` emits U+0300 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT, and then type the base letter followed by Alt-` to add an accent. Not 100% sure what you want? Have a text file with all the characters you can't type and often want to use. Cumbersome, maybe, but not as bad as some other options. :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
