Re: [Bug-apl] Another option for APL keyboard mapping

[Chris Jones]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 01:04:50AM EDT, David Lamkins wrote:
> As much as I like gnu-apl-mode and aplwrap (I use both on a daily basis), I
> felt like there ought to be a more lightweight approach to getting APL
> characters into GNU APL.
> 
> Today I wrote `akt`, the APL Keyboard Translator.
> 
> https://github.com/TieDyedDevil/akt
> 
> This small C program simply reads stdin and writes stdout. It takes
> advantage of the fact that most modern terminal emulators will map the Alt
> key to send an ESC prefix; therefore APL characters are seen by `akt` as a
> two-character sequence. `akt` maps this sequence to the Unicode character
> expected by GNU APL.

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Doesn't this amount to a GNU/APL-specific implementation of the standard
X Compose mechanism?

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-apl/2014-05/msg00004.html

CJ