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Re: How to map non printing characters in mim file?
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Ajith R |
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Re: How to map non printing characters in mim file? |
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Sat, 20 Feb 2021 14:35:45 +0000 (UTC) |
Hi David,
Thanks a lot
ajith
On Tuesday, 16 February, 2021, 12:45:42 am IST, David Mandelberg
<david@mandelberg.org> wrote:
It's been a while since I've looked at any m17n stuff, but I think this
is the specification I learned from:
https://www.nongnu.org/m17n/manual-en/m17nDBFormat.html#mdbIM
>From INPUT-METHOD, I think I followed the definitions to (in order)
MAP-LIST, MAP, RULE, MAP-ACTION, ACTION, INSERT, then finally INTEGER.
The top of the page shows the format for INTEGER, and I think I just
assumed inserting an INTEGER would mean inserting that Unicode code point.
Op 15-02-2021 om 06:19 schreef Ajith R:
> Hi David,
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> Thanks for your reply. Great to know that we can specify unicode values
> directly.
> By "specification", I meant the source where details like this are written.
> Even though you may not know about a specification file, may be you can tell
> me from where you got this info (that we can specify unicode values directly).
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> Thanks,
> ajith
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> On Monday 15 February 2021, 1:32:14 AM IST, David Mandelberg
> <david@mandelberg.org> wrote:
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> I'm not sure about the specification, but here's an example of how I've
> handled non-printing characters:
> https://github.com/dseomn/dotfiles/blob/36620c06637e2fa19ac8fb5f9dd575292fa20cc7/.m17n.d/rfc1345-plus.mim#L59
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> Op 14-02-2021 om 13:51 schreef Ajith R:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> For the layout I am designing, I need to map keys to non printing characters
>> zwnj and zwj. How can I do that? Is there a way to specify Unicode code
>> points directly?
>>
>> I learned about mim file structure from the tutorial hereĀ
>> https://www.nongnu.org/m17n/manual-en/m17nDBTutorial.html
>> While the tutorial is great, some things are not mentioned in it. For
>> example, which characters need to be quoted, which are the reserved words
>> etc. Can you please point me to some resource that provides information like
>> this, sort of mim file specification?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ajith
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