unicode by default

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/14/2011 3:41 AM, harrismh777 wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:

>> Easy, practical use of unicode is still a work in progress.
>
> Apparently... the good news for me is that SBL provides their unicode
> font here:
>
> http://www.sbl-site.org/educational/biblicalfonts.aspx
>
> I'm getting much closer here, but now the problem is typing. The pain
> with unicode fonts is that the glyph is tied to the code point for the
> represented character, and not tied to any code point that matches any
> keyboard scan code for typing. :-}
>
> So, I can now see the ancient text with accents and aparatus in all of
> my editors, but I still cannot type any ancient Greek with my
> keyboard... because I have to make up a keymap first. <sigh>
>
> I don't find that SBL (nor Logos Software) has provided keymaps as
> yet... rats.

You need what is called, at least with Windows, an IME -- Input Method 
Editor. These are part of (or associated with) the OS, so they can be 
used with *any* application that will accept unicode chars (in whatever 
encoding) rather than just ascii chars. Windows has about a hundred or 
so, including Greek. I do not know if that includes classical Greek with 
the extra marks.

> I can read the test with Python though... yessss.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy