On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 12:59:10 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote: > Marko Rauhamaa writes: > > > BTW, typing any useful Unicode character is a major unsolved problem. > > You typed a good number of Unicode characters in that sentence alone. > ASCII is a simple subset of Unicode. > > I suppose you meant to refer to typing some character not mapped to a > single keystroke on a US-English keyboard kayout. > > You're right, that is a major problem. > > As for how solved it is, that depends on what you're hoping for as a > solution. > > The conventional solution, which I find to be quite useful for typing > characters from a great many different writing systems, is an > <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method> customised to > particular writing systems. > > My primary input method is one which lets me type typical English text > and also easily input a broad range of useful characters with a few > mnenonic two- or three-key sequences. > > > 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. > > Hopefully your operating system has a good input method system, with > many input methods available to choose from. May you find a decent > default there.
I believe that these discussions would be useful (and the current state of input methods better-ed if we distinguish different levels of input-methods. Basically ranging from low-setup, hi-perchar cost to hi-setup low-perchar cost At the one extreme we have use google, hunt around, cut-paste At the other use a special hardware keyboard [I believe Steven had sometime showed something like this https://plus.google.com/102786751626732213960/posts/2uJzHw1JHeN?pid=5802841322291932386&oid=102786751626732213960 ] In between these two extremes we have many possibilities - ibus/gchar etc - compose key - alternate keyboard layouts Using all these levels judiciously seems to me a good idea... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
