Re: How to recognize keyboard insertion?

[tomas]

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On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 08:09:19PM +0000, David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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>> Maybe so, but UAX#9 treats European digits and Arabic digits
>> differently.  They have different bidirectional properties.

Thanks for the info. Every day something new, I guess :-)

> The eastern arabic digits U+06F0 to U+06F9 and usual western digits U+0030 
> to U+0039 do have separate code point ranges.  Apparently
> the former code points are less used - the arabic keyboard layout returns 
> the western codes for the 0-9 keypresses.
>
> gtk+/pango seems to be choosing to merely _display_ the latter with the 
> glyphs of the former depending on surrounding language.
[...]

Yes, that's how I imagined things work, from my limited experience.
Seems my view was a bit naïve.

Thanks for the insights
- -- tomás
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