sq.h changes, grabbed reserved field in sqKeyboardEvent

[John M McIntosh]

So what is the problem with the current version of the Mac VM not  
allowing people
to input Japanese, Korean, Chinese?


On 30-Mar-06, at 4:22 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:

>   John,
>
>> Sure I can return 42 the magic number from LMGetKbdType() meaning you
>> are using as Estonia keyboard, or maybe
>> 78 for Devanagari keyboard in the Indian Language Kit, however it's
>> unlikely I or any other developer will want to code the
>> keyboard to ascii/macroman/unicode whatever translation tables in the
>> image.
>
>   And, why is that?  That is how it works right now in Squeak 3.8.
>
>   If the VM is too clever but not take the Asian language input method
> into account, I'm afraid that there will be no easy way to get the
> functionality back.  On current Windows and some older versions of Mac
> VM, people can input Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc. into Squeakland
> (Squeak 3.8 based).  But the last patched version of Unix VM (3.6-3 or
> such), we needed to disable all the conversions implemented in the VM
> after all.
>
> -- Yoshiki

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