[gcompris-devel] Re: charset generation

[Bruno Coudoin]

I agree. We don't need to go deeper than what we are doing currently
with ASCII for the other locales. We need to find the 'single key'
mapped char and use them.

Bruno.

Le mer 11/02/2004 à 13:52, José JORGE a écrit :
> Em Quarta, 11 de Fevereiro de 2004 01:02, o Bruno Coudoin escreveu:
> > Le mer 11/02/2004 à 00:36, Jody Goldberg a écrit :
> > > 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).
> >
> > Bruno.
> >
> 
> I don't think it is a good idea putting complex typing on a software aiming 
> 3-8 years old people. There are other software for that, as Tuxtype for young 
> people, which is specialized.
> Furthermore, I may play on a locale but have the keyboard for another one, so 
> I won't be able to type all chars!
> As I'm in mandrake-i18n ML, I heard that even japanese people don't type on 
> japanese keyboards : they use ascii keyboard with a soft that changes the 
> input method.
> 
> What I mean is that it seems that we are going in a too complex way for the 
> kids.
> 
> José
> 
> 
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