retitle 404546 Give out warnings if set to XIM with non-en_US UTF-8 encoding but no proper SupportedUnicodeLocales setting tags 404546 confirmed upstream severity 404546 wishlist thanks
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 02:50:43PM +0800, Enrico Zini wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using the [EMAIL PROTECTED] locale, but I need SCIM to occasionally type > other scripts. > > I use im-switch and had to use scim-immodule instead of scim, because > scim would not start. scim-immodule does not work with OpenOffice > and QT applications, so I wanted to use scim. > > Andrew Lee found out that I should add it_IT.UTF-8 to > /SupportedUnicodeLocales in /etc/scim/global, as in: > > /SupportedUnicodeLocales = en_US.UTF-8,it_IT.UTF-8 > > I did it and indeed now it works. Yes this is a limitation of scim and is currently documented in README.Debian. > Shouldn't SCIM support all UTF-8 locales by default? From the moment I > type "im-switch -s scim" I'd expect that scim is set to start on my > locale, or at least I'd like to get a message telling me how to > configure scim for my locale. > > It's not just people from United States that need to type other > scripts... I agree this is rather confusing and should be improved. However (1) this is upstream behavior, and I don't know the code enough to change it; (2) im-switch can set input methods for all_ALL which matchs all locales, and for this at least there is no way to know which locale the user is going to use scim in; (3) this SupportedUnicodeLocales setting can be set both in /etc/scim/global and ~/.scim/global, adding the fact that im-switch can write settings both to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/ and ~/.xinput.d/, the logic to test the setting and give out warnings would be quite complicated. Any ideas about how to fix this(or better, patches) would be appreciated. Ming 2006.12.26 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
