Hi, The current XFree86 release (4.3.0) offers support for the input of Vietnamese characters in UTF-8 locales using the Compose mechanism:
Compose ' or dead_acute => acute accent (ascending tone) Compose ` or dead_grave => grave accent (descending tone) Compose ^ or dead_circumflex => circumflex accent Compose ! or dead_dotbelow => dot below Compose ? or dead_hook => hook above Compose + or dead_horn => horn Vietnamese speakers pointed out to me that this is unwieldy due to the massive usage of accents in Vietnamese and to the common usage of input methods (for MS Windows) mapping oo => o with circumflex aa => a with circumflex es => a with acute accent etc... Do some similar input methods exist for Unix? Is somebody working on this? The Compose mechanism looks ok to input short sentences or proper citations of Vietnamese names, but not for the input of a large body of text, where such an input method would be needed. David Monniaux http://www.di.ens.fr/~monniaux Laboratoire d'informatique de l'�cole Normale Sup�rieure, Paris, France _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
