Re: [MiNT] Language selection (Was: Re: [ANNOUNCE] FreeMiNT 1.17.0 Released !)

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>]

On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 21:22 +0200, Christos Tziotzis wrote:

> This might be very nice for languages that use a superset of the Latin
> alphabet, but for languages such as greek it's a pain to have to go to
> desktop in order to launch swkbd and change the language. Is it
> possible for swkbd to be included in the AES (or perhaps kernel) level
> so that it can be used through a ctrl+alt combination?

I have been thinking about this, and I think that the kernel should be
able to handle at least two independent keyboard tables (primary and
secondary). It should then be possible to switch between these using
Ssystem, which again would make it easy to do this using a hotkey in the
AES.

However, this means that the keyboard.tbl format must be extended to
allow multiple languages.

An easy solution is to use a small GEM-program/accessory to select
language. In effect a GEM-version of swkbd. Would that do?

Jo Even