http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Proposals:Greek_Character_Input&feed=atom&action=historyProposals:Greek Character Input - Revision history2013-06-20T04:27:36ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.18.0http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Proposals:Greek_Character_Input&diff=5307&oldid=prevMatthewg42 at 11:36, 22 April 20092009-04-22T11:36:40Z<p></p>
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</table>Matthewg42http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Proposals:Greek_Character_Input&diff=5297&oldid=prevMatthewg42 at 21:02, 18 April 20092009-04-18T21:02:42Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>When searching for stars by their Bayer Designation, it would be helpful for people without Greek keyboard layouts, or who do not know the extended character input modes of various operating systems to have some mechanism by which to search for stars using their Bayer designation.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>When searching for stars by their Bayer Designation, it would be helpful for people without Greek keyboard layouts, or who do not know the extended character input modes of various operating systems to have some mechanism by which to search for stars using their Bayer designation.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">There </del>are <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">two approaches </del>which <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">seem promising:</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==Proposed solutions==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">===Transliteration===</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The search feature should match not only literal Greek characters, but also "spelled out" names of Greek characters in Latin characters, e.g. α Tauri would become "alpha Tauri".  Here's a full list:</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Like the Gnome/Pango input scheme where pressing control-alt-u puts the line edit into unicode character composition mode such that the following character strokes </ins>are <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">interpreted as numeric unicode codes.  e.g. "control-alt-u 0 3 b 1 [RETURN]" is α, "control-alt-u 0 3 b 2 [RETURN]" becomes β and so on.  This might be better being OS-specific, as the Windows crowd have their own ALT-code composition method (</ins>which <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">maybe already works - can someone check this?), and the Mac also has a character composition method which is different again.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A GUI panel similar to that implemented in "character map" applications might be available in the search dialog - perhaps as a checkbox enabled drop panel.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">#Transliteration of Greek characters into latin characters, e</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">g. α Tauri would become "Alpha Tauri" - the search tool would allow searching by "spelled out" Greek letters.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==See also==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">#A panel which allows for insertion of Greek characters - something like the various "character map" applications which some with most OSes</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*[https://sourceforge</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">net/tracker/index</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">php?func=detail&aid=2764142&group_id=48857&atid=454376 this feature request]</ins></div></td></tr>
</table>Matthewg42http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Proposals:Greek_Character_Input&diff=5296&oldid=prevMatthewg42: New page: When searching for stars by their Bayer Designation, it would be helpful for people without Greek keyboard layouts, or who do not know the extended character input modes of various operati...2009-04-18T20:38:06Z<p>New page: When searching for stars by their Bayer Designation, it would be helpful for people without Greek keyboard layouts, or who do not know the extended character input modes of various operati...</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>When searching for stars by their Bayer Designation, it would be helpful for people without Greek keyboard layouts, or who do not know the extended character input modes of various operating systems to have some mechanism by which to search for stars using their Bayer designation.<br />
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There are two approaches which seem promising:<br />
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#Transliteration of Greek characters into latin characters, e.g. α Tauri would become "Alpha Tauri" - the search tool would allow searching by "spelled out" Greek letters.<br />
#A panel which allows for insertion of Greek characters - something like the various "character map" applications which some with most OSes.</div>Matthewg42