Re: charset generation

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 11:02, Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> Le mer 11/02/2004 à 00:36, Jody Goldberg a écrit :
> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 12:12:32AM +0100, Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > In gcompris, we have an activity where the kid just hit the falling
> > > letters. 
> > > As of today, only ASCII is supported.
> > > 
> > > We would like to display a char from the charset of the current locale.
> > > Is it possible to get it or we need to hardcode a list of unicode char
> > > for each locale ?
> > 
> > It sounds like what you really need is a way to find all the
> > characters a child could type with their current keyboard layout.
> > The locale is only a proxy to that.
> > 
> You are correct. We are especially focussed on kids and we may want to
> avoid complex charaters typings. More, we may need to start with letters
> easy to type (one key) and then introduce the ones that needs 2 keys
> (like alt+x).

But in this case you need to build up the list of possible characters
yourself, surely? It is not locale dependent, rather it is input-method
dependent.

Malcolm