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thamizha / ekalappai

An opensource keyboard manager
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Backspace deletes part of a letter only #10

Open tamiliam opened 10 years ago

tamiliam commented 10 years ago

I use the phonetic keyboard in Windows, and when I type backspace, to delete a character like, say, "க்" it deletes just the "◌்" and leaves out "க". I would rather if the delete is clean.

Is there a code/symbol for "Backspace" that could be used to modify the phonetic keyboard layout accordingly? Typing two backspaces to delete a character slows down the fast typist.

KaaSethu commented 10 years ago

Your finding is correct. Unfortunately there is no code or symbol for backspace that could be used in the table format used in current eKalappai and so only the system default backspace is in effect (which could only erase the last Unicode code point at a time).

The IME needs to be enhanced for inclusion of means for controlling backspace. I hope it happens in future.

tamiliam commented 10 years ago

I tried including the following "த்\u0008 \u0000" in the Tamil-phonetic.txt.in, and it didn't work unfortunately.

On 12 July 2014 10:34, K. Sethu notifications@github.com wrote:

Your finding is correct. Unfortunately there is no code or symbol for backspace that could be used in the table format used in current eKalappai and so only the system default backspace is in effect (which could only erase the last Unicode code point at a time).

The IME needs to be enhanced for inclusion of means for controlling backspace. I hope it happens in future.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/thamizha/ekalappai/issues/10#issuecomment-48800194.