[texhax] Serbian Cyrillic characters

[Reinhard Kotucha]

Sorry, I submitted the last mail accidentally before it was finished.


On 26 January 2010 Pierre MacKay wrote:

 > On 01/25/2010 10:21 PM, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
 > > Reinhard Kotucha<reinhard.kotucha at web.de>  wrote:
 > >
 > >    
 > >>    Options ->  Mule ->  select input method ->  vietnamese-viqr
 > >>
 > >> I can enter Vietnamese characters on a pure ASCII keyboard (in VIQR)
 > >> conveniently: When I type "Ha` No^.i", I see "H?? N???i" on screen.
 > >>
 > >> Emacs provides an input-method called "cyrillic-serbian".  I must
 > >> admit that I don't know how to use it, though.
 > >>
 > >>      
 > > Thank you so much for the info. I must admit that using Emacs is
 > > against my religion.  I use nvi which does support Unicode since 2000
 > > or so but I have never used it. It is probably also obvious that I do
 > > not use Linux. I am an OpenBSD guy.
 > >
 > >    
 > Surely there is an emacs distribution for BSD.  There certainly was one
 > in pre-Solaris days for Sun Microsystems and also for Vaxen.

Of course, but this is obviously a religious problem.  I don't want to
evangelize anybody, I'm not religious in this respect at all.  But
though I bought a book about vi already, I was often too lazy to
investigate how to do things in vi because I already knew how to do it
in Emacs.  Thus, I can understand that someone who is using vi for
years doesn't want to switch to another editor.

Modern variants of vi are very powerful too.  And, as far as I can
see, some of them support Unicode already.  The question is how to
enter characters not supported by the keyboard.

Everybody in Vietnam is using a US keyboard, there are no dedicated
keyboards for Vietnamese.  I've seen that a friend of mine who was
running a Vietnamese Linux distribution could switch between European
and Vietnamese within his GUI.  I suppose that there is a way to
customize X11's keyboard interface.  The advantage is that all
programs benefit from it.  But please don't ask me for details, I'm
not familiar with X11 at all.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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