[Localization] Announce: GUI keyboard layout editor

[Edward Cherlin]

That's wonderful. We need to get this Wikied at OLPC, and announced to
the Unicode mailing list. I talked to Linux Journal awhile ago about
an article on keyboards for X. This would be even better.

I have been wanting to create several keyboard layouts for various
purposes: Yiddish, Klingon, Elvish, and a modified left-handed
keyboard. I don't like the LH Dvorak provided with most systems today.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Simos Xenitellis
<simos.lists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I would like to announce that a GUI layout editor has just been made available,
> http://simos.info/blog/archives/750
>
> The program allows you to create or edit existing layouts in a graphical way,
> simply by dragging and dropping Unicode characters.
>
> It is currently targeted to XKB keyboard layouts.
>
> For some complex needs, such as
>
> a. compose sequences that produce more than one Unicode character,
> you need to specify separately, since the configuration file is different.
> This includes cases where you have diacritic marks and you want them
> to be applied
> similarly to the way dead keys are applied.
> b. generic cases where you want a string to be printed when you press
> a single key, as in
> <asterisk>        : "Hey, you just pressed the * key!"
> Useful for complex scripts.
>
> these need to be handled by hand for now.
>
> Simos
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