On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 12:29 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 02:50:15PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 16:41 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > Really, I have no > > > problem using my keyboard, > > > > Given your location and native language, I suspect your keyboard layout > > is en_US, in which case this isn't much of a surprise - it's one of the > > simplest cases (it requires one of the fewest numbers of characters of > > any layout) and it's also the one which gets most attention, development > > and testing. > > > > If you spoke Chinese - or, even better, something Indic - you may have a > > different perspective. =) > > Just to clear this up, I'm using a UK keyboard and switch > between English and Japanese input (Anthy). d'oh, right, too many Joneses around, I forgot you were the one who uses Japanese too. =) well, I imagine you know more about this than me, but I run with Japanese input support at least occasionally, and my impression is that a lot of it is a fragile tower necessitated by the fact that the deep underlying stuff was coded with the assumption that all anyone ever wanted to type was ASCII. It feels to me like CJK input breaks a lot more than it really *should*, if you step back and look at it from first principles - it's just an input method, and we'd feel pretty dumb if we shipped a release where you can't type the letter Q, yet this sort of thing seems to happen all the time with non-en_US input. From a QA perspective, I know keyboard layout selection and complex character input is one of the things that breaks so often we had to stick an explicit validation test in for it. I don't know how much of this is related to X specifically, but I know it's certainly one of the things involved which makes the whole process of providing switchable input methods so icky. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
