Re: OT: Orthographic challenges

* Mark J. Reed said on 2007-07-03 23:26:25 +0200
> Letting you enter arbitrary Unicode symbols is not PuTTY's
> job.  It just takes what the I/O system hands it.
The machine it connects to is 100% UTF8, and vim-in-putty can't
even show the UTF8-characters correctly but degrades to latin1.

>  You want something like the UnicodeInput system tray addon,
>  which lets you enter any Unicode character by typing out its
>  hexadecimal code point number.  That's cumbersome for
>  frequently-used characters, of course, and for that situation
>  you'll probably want to define your own keyboard layout.
>
> UnicodeInput: http://www.fileformat.info/tool/unicodeinput/index.htm
Ooh, new toy!

> MS keyboard layout creator:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=FB7B3DCD-D4C1-4943-9C74-D8DF57EF19D7&displaylang=en
Knew of this one already.

> Alternatives: http://www.klm32.com/ ,
> http://www.downloadjunction.com/product/software/129161/index.html
Hmm... I used to use Tavultesoft Keyman once-upon-a-time.

> That's all for Windows, which I assume from the PuTTY comment
> is what the OP is running.
I mostly use freenixes these days but have been popping by
Windows once a day lately to check up on a MMORPG I'm in (no,
not WoW).

Talking about Windows vs. freenix, there are much better
character pickers/charmaps for unicode on Windows than freenixes
these days :( Babelmap is almost perfect.

> On UNIX/Linux I tend to fire up vim, use the control-v + u +
> hexcode sequence, and then paste wherever I need.  Hardly
> elegant, I know, but I'm not usually on the console running
> X11, so my options are somewhat limited.  There are some
> reportedly nifty XIM solutions, but I have no experience with
> them.
I usually use vim myself.

You do know of Ctrl-K? Ctrl-K <letter1> <letter2>, see :digraphs

This handles most latin+diacritics, +hiragana/katakana. I do use
SCIM for IPA when necessary and have made my own mapping for it.


t.

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