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[Andrew Cunningham]

You can use either Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC) or
Tavultesoft Keyman Developer to create an appropriate keyboard layout.
Depending on how you design a keyboard, you can create a single key to
output one or more Unicode characters.

Which tool you choose will depend on your budget and on the complexity
of the keyboard,
and your budget.
Heather,

Sounds like you just need something fairly simple and implemented on a
small scale, so the free MSKLC should be sufficient. Only limitation
is you have to tie the new keyboard to an existing windows input
locale. Ok on your own computers, but a practice i avoid like the
plague in the public settings we support.

Andrew

2008/5/17 Heather Souter <hsouter at gmail.com>:
> Kihchi-maarsii pur toñ repoñs, Bill!  Thanks for your response, Bill!
>
> So, I guess that our present way of using <ñ> really is still perhaps the
> best (read easiest) compromise for our orthographic purposes?  Or, is it
> simply a matter of educating myself (and other potential users of the
> orthography) on the process (key strokes necessary) to produce the character
> when writing?  Is there a simple way to program a key to produce the
> character when hit once (using shift or control or whatever)?  Or, will it
> always take a couple of key strokes?
>
> Eekoshi kihtwaam.
> Heather
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:48 PM, William J Poser <wjposer at ldc.upenn.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> Heather,
>>
>> Unicode does not encode n with a slash through it as a single codepoint,
>> but it does have slash as a combining character. In fact, it has two:
>> U+0337 COMBINING SHORT SOLIDUS OVERLAY
>> U+0338 COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY
>> (The forward slash is called "solidus" in Unicode-speak.)
>>
>> So, you can get a lower-case n overlaid by a long slash by entering
>> first the n and then U+0338. They are two separate codepoints but will
>> be rendered by Unicode-aware software as the single character you want.
>>
>> Because this is treated as a sequence of two "characters" in Unicode,
>> you may have to do something special to get your sort order the
>> way you want it. Such things are a little easier if you can get what you
>> want as a single codepoint, but the Unicode Consortium is reluctant
>> to add single codepoints for things that can be composed from existing
>> combining characters.
>>
>> Bill
>
>



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Andrew Cunningham
Vicnet Research and Development Coordinator
State Library of Victoria
Australia

andrewc at vicnet.net.au
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