Re: [9fans] unicode input for OSX-native drawterm

["Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>]

THere's no much traffic on the list. using the inferno and/or 9fans lists
to report what's being done to port emu/drawterm to macs would be nice.

I guess I'll have to learn cocoa if I want to be able to adjust our inferno in
the futue.

On 10/30/07, underspecified <underspecified@gmail.com> wrote:
> I apologize for being grumpy in my last post.
>
> While we are talking about Unicode input in OS X, I feel I should put in my
> 2 cents' worth.
> In Carbon, input events (from the keyboard, IMEs, character maps, etc.)
> generate Unicode text input events.
> If the Unicode events are not handled by your app, then raw keyboard events
> are generated.
> What our apps really need is to handle Unicode text events. That will make
> it possible for Bulgarian keyboards,
> Japanese IMEs, and math symbols from the special chars table to work in
> drawterm, emu, what-have-you-not.
> I've already implemented handlers for Unicode input events in Acme SAC for
> OS X.
>
> Grabbing the Unicode chars from kEventRawKeyDown might work for Bulgarian,
> but it doesn't scale.
> The problem with doing everything in Unicode is that we need to redo all of
> our special character checks and
> conversion to use Unicode values instead of MacCharCodes. I've been working
> on Unicode-based special
> character handling as well, but the code is still a bit buggy.
>
> With the release of Leopard, it looks like Apple is finally phasing out
> Carbon. It has been brought up a couple
> of times on various lists, but the future of p9/inferno apps on OS X is
> ideally a Cocoa rewrite. This would actually
> take care of a lot of the annoying aspects of internationalized text input
> for us. I wish I had the time and Objective
> C knowledge to undertake such a project.
>
> Anyway, could I propose an osx-ip9 Google group or mailing list, so that all
> of us Mac hackers working on different
> apps can keep current on what others are working on?
>
> --underspecified
>
>
> On 10/30/07, underspecified <underspecified@gmail.com> wrote:
> > *sigh* I don't need to complain, but this is *exactly* what I have been
> working on in Acme SAC for the last month.
> > We *really* need some way of getting the drawterm/emu/acme-sac OS X code
> in sync...
> >
> > --underspecified
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/30/07, andrey mirtchovski < mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > this is the last piece of the puzzle that i was missing from the OSX
> > > drawterm: the ability to input text when i'm using a different
> > > keyboard layout than the english one (that's bulgarian for me).
> > >
> > > this file will pick up the unicode key from the input event and send
> > > it directly to plan9 without attempting to pass it as a char (which is
> > > what the old code did).
> > >
> > > since my screen.c has accumulated quite a few patches missing from the
> > > CVS repository i'm attaching the whole thing. maintainers of acme-sac
> > > and inferno can add the changes: they're in the kEventRawKeyDown event
> > > handler and the convert_key routine and are quite obvious.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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