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Re: SIL Toolbox and IPA Unicode 1.0

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 1, 2004, 3:52
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:58:26 -0400, Amanda Babcock <ababcock@...> wrote:
> Ok, I've been playing around with SIL's Toolbox again (successor to Shoebox),
(Whoa, I didn't know about that... I'll hafta look at it.)
> and now I'm trying to create a project with Unicode data. I copied the folder > "Startup Kit IPA Unicode" from the Toolbox Training folder "3 Starting Your > Own Project" to my working folder. I managed to associate the "IPAUni" > language encoding with Lucida Sans Unicode, so now I can at least see the > sample text properly, but what I don't get is - how do I enter text? > > The help files say that using the old SIL IPA 93 keyboard from Keyman is no > longer advised as they recommend Unicode. And in fact, there is a keyboard > listed under the Options tab in the Language Encoding Properties for IPAUni > which says "IPA Unicode 1.0". However, I don't have any such keyboard listed > in my Windows language bar settings. I'm running Windows XP, so I should > have the latest and greatest of whatever Windows has come up with, such as > it is. So how do I enter text using "IPA Unicode 1.0"?
I don't know exactly - I don't have "IPA Unicode 1.0". (Isn't that the keyboard recently posted here by the one person in his LJ?) All that I get is the list of keyboards I currently have ready. But as far as I can tell Toolbox doesn't recognize XP keyboards properly yet anyway,[1] so... ... I suppose you can't. *Muke! [1] http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/problems.htm -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/