To support Haiku and do something useful for it, I am pleased to show you how to communicate with the input server in BeOS.
In BeOS, almost everything uses the UTF-8 character encoding for the processing of characters. Thus, if you want to write or display the characters of other languages than English, all you need to do is to find a font able to display the characters properly and an input method add-on to help you at outputting characters to the running application. The input method handling of BeOS was originally found in the Japanese support. It works this way: The input server loads the add-ons located at B_SYSTEM_ADDONS_DIRECTORY /input_server/methods or B_USER_ADDONS_DIRECTORY/input_server/methods, then filter all events generated by the keyboard or mouse with the Filter() method of BInputServerFilter to change them. There are only a few input methods written since the time BeOS R4 was released. Maybe it's because only ERGOSOFT Crop. and just a few developers know how to have method working. In my memory, existing methods are BeCJK, HanBe, Canna, ChineseTool and more recently "Anthy for Zeta".
