On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 23:10, Martin Sevior wrote:
> Hi David,
> The first thing you need to do is to get XIM working.
> Unfortunately none of the core AbiWord hackers have much experience with
> this. There was good post by Raphael a few days ago explaining his
> attempts to get things working. I suspect that it is not too hard but we
> need explicit help from XIM users.
>
OK, here's my progress.
I've installed all the relevant software. XIM appears to work with other
applications, completely so with evolution (although evo seems to get
stuck half in Japanese until I restart) and just missing fonts with
other apps (I need to install them tonight). It works *mostly* with my
other gtk2 application, pan (looks like a font problem, which is odd,
because it can display Japanese), and with Abi STABLE (except that I'm
missing fonts -- I might not bother trying to fix that). ('Works but no
fonts' means that I get the little hiragana indicating that kinput2 is
working, and the kinput2 window appears and converts what I type to
Japanese, but when I hit return to insert it into the document, I get
the gibberish you get when a program tries to interpret Japanese as
western text.)
It doesn't work *at all* with HEAD, as Raphael reported. Shift-space
just enters a space.
I'm using kinput2 with a Canna/FreeWnn backend (that is, absolutely
standard software), so I don't think there's a problem with Raphael's
XIM. At least, his problems don't indicate that.
What do I have to do to supply *useful* information to the hackers?
Thanks.
(Incidentally, Abi's Japanese localisation seems to be messed up -- the
encoding appears to be incorrectly specified. I'll file bugs on this
this evening.)
--
David Chart
http://www.dchart.demon.co.uk/
