[sword-devel] input methods

[Chris Little]

This is just a guess, but I suspect it is not being used anywhere by 
anyone. SWInputMethod was basically for customized input methods of a 
very basic sort. For example, input ' to the IM and get א out. 
(HebrewMCIM, if it isn't clear, takes Michigan-Claremont Hebrew encoding 
and outputs Unicode.) The use for this would be on systems without an 
OS-wide non-Latin IM switching method, or in the case where we just 
don't want to use or implement IMs using the OS-supplied methods.

SWInputMethod could probably be implemented using ICU transliterators, 
which would likely be a bit slower and would add a requirement of using 
ICU. But doing so would mean not having to write a bunch of classes like 
HebrewMCIM for each IM we want to support.

Troy can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the original purpose of 
SWInputMethod and HewbrewMCIM was for a collaborative editor for Project 
"eL" (cf. http://www.xml.com/pub/r/915).

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If we really don't intend to use any of this any time soon, it would 
probably be a good idea to pull it out of the library, since it's just 
taking up space. Or maybe you had an idea for a use for it?

--Chris

On 8/31/2010 10:41 AM, Matthew Talbert wrote:
> Today I ran across the SWInputMethod class in SWORD and was curious
> about it. Apparently, the HebrewMCIM method was added in 2001, and
> nothing has been done since. Is this code being used anywhere? What is
> it's intended use?
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew
>
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