RFC 1345 as an input method (In reply to http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg47588.html)

Mr Kim Sanders <Mr.Kim.Sanders@xxxxxxx> · Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:56:42 -0600

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Subject: RFC 1345 as an input method 
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From: Mr Kim Sanders <Mr.Kim.Sanders at shaw.ca> 
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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 
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It would appear to me that the answer regarding consistency among the 
input methods, especially in how the variable-length character mnemonic 
[shorthand]s are framed, is answered in http://rfc.net/rfc1345.html at the end of section 2.4, part way down 
[Page 5].  I quote:—

      One prominent character in the reference character 
      set is reserved
       for 
      identifying variable-length mnemonics, namely the underline
       character "_". This character is 
      intended as a delimiter both in the
       front 
      and in the end of the mnemonic. An example of its use would be:
       (&=intro):

      &_j3210_ &_j4436_&_j6530_

These mnemonic shorthands could logically be used in personal Word 
Processing programs for macros (thus speeding up the keying in of data) as well 
as in non-Unicode-based genealogy programs (which only allow decimal ALT-code 
entry for characters not seen on the keyboard).  Naturally, one could 
devise one's own system using mnemonic tables such as RFC 1345 for 
ideas.
  I personally am considering http://rfc.net/rfc1345.html (which appears to be used liberally in 
http://www.gloser.org/es/faq/shortcuts/ and http://www.eki.ee/letter/) along with other mnemonic layouts such as can be 
found at http://www.eki.ee/knab/kbdiakr.htm as well as more specialized sites like 
el_tigre's suggestion of 26 Jul 06 for Croatian at http://www.phrasebase.com/forum/read.php?action=""> and Vietnamese conventions (such as described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex_%28IME%29 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIQR).

    As to the matter of IMEs (such as EMACS and SCIM), 
I'll leave that aspect to those specializing in that type of 
IME.

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