Touchscreen keyboard support for multi-byte character languages
CA 2244431 C · Owner: Ranieri, Robert · Inventors: Ranieri, Robert
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The invention relates to the entering, displaying and processing of text of various human languages consisting of multi-byte characters when the text is entered by means of a touchscreen terminal keyboard into a programmed computer system. The computer system includes an operating system and other software providing means for converting inputs from the touchscreen keyboard into displayed characters and a keyboard definition file for processing by the computer system to provide the touchscreen keyboard on the display. The keyboard definition file includes means for specifying a national language and means for supporting inputs of multi-byte character language. A touchscreen support module …
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- Filed July 30, 1998 and granted February 19, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 30, 2018.
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