Input methods on Mac interfering with Unicode in RunRev.

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Mon Aug 9 16:40:27 EDT 2010


  I had a chat with Sivakatirswami last night

[Wow; what a sympathetic, easy-going sort of chap . . . would that we 
all could
be like that]

AND . . . and this is where things get 'ugly' . . .

So, my Devawriter (both the Free and the Demo of the Pro versions) 
leverage a non-standard Unicode
Sanskrit font to perform their "magic" (this is a technical term for the 
results of hard work); and that
is jolly good as the Unicode consortium have not made spaces for all the 
thousands of twiddly
characters that Sanskrit-Devanagari features . . .

Now, cut to the chase;

Mac OS X has a system for inputting languages leveraging standard 
Unicode tables;

when I use my Devawriter it swaps over into Macs fairly manky Devanagari 
input system (mainly
because I have selected it as one of the keyboard options on my system . . .

Sivakatirswami, on the other hand, gets the system swapping over to the 
Tamil input system.

Both of these are, frankly, utter nonsense, as Devawriter is meant to 
"do the job"  without
Mac imposing Apple's "vision of multi-script input" on the end-user; it 
also is a pain as it sometimes
interferes when the end-user swaps over, inside Devawriter, to the 
'Edit' card to mess around, and possibly
write something in his/her mother tongue, or any other for that matter.

 i.e. over ride Mac's own system.

As I am still sitting in London and have no access to RunRev for another 
2 days I would be extremely
grateful if anybody can direct me to some way to work round this problem.

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.




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