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Re: Linux console internationalization

Beni Cherniavsky <cben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> The first question has some reasonable answers:

One answer I didn't notice in your list was that applications might
want to display the shift state. For example, in one of my Emacs input
methods I use ";c" to type 'ĉ'. When I type ';' I see ';' underlined
to remind me that the ';' might be combined with the following
character.

Back in the 1980s I had an Amstrad PCW running LocoScript 2. You
switched between Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and symbol keyboards using
Alt-F1, etc, and there was some kind of indication on the screen of
which keyboard was currently selected, if I remember correctly.

(LocoScript 2 also let you combine any diacritic with any base
character and had more diacritics than TeX ...)
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