Re: [wEr\ Ar\ ju: fr6m] ?
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 11, 2001, 19:21 |
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On Sunday 11 November 2001 20:06, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> I've found out that the Yudit editor (for Linux and BSD) will let me
> specify an input method so that I can type X-SAMPA at it, and see the
> IPA on screen... and it's got a stand-alone tool that will use the
> same spec to convert between X-SAMPA in ASCII and IPA in Unicode. So
> that's the way forward, I think.
>
> But there's a bug in Yudit's placement of combining diacritics, so I'm
> going to hack on that first. And it doesn't do 'shaping' yet, which I
> guess is selection of alternate glyphs in Arabic, conjuncts in Indic
> --- and ligatures in roman-based scripts like IPA.
>
I have learned to really hate Yudit, especially in the most recent
version, where the user interface is something horrible... Anyway,
there is lots of work going on making Unicode X11 keymaps - including
ones for ancient Greek and so on. Together with any KDE or Qt3
application that should be enought for decent Unicode support.
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