Hi, Gora Mohanty wrote: > --- "आशीष शà¥à¤•à¥à¤²à¤¾ \"Wah Java !!\"" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > >>A good tool for typing in Indic scripts. But, I've a problem using >>it, the transliteration style (or standard) used by this IME is >>bit different from the style used in indic input methods provided >>with SCIM or IIIMF. > > > I imagine that you are referring to the ITRANS transliteration scheme > (http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/), though at least SCIM has other > phonetic methods. There is no reason that ITRANS cannot be implemented > in the Firefox IME. I agree with you that it probably should be, as > it is the de-facto standard.
Thanx > > >> So, what if someone provides a native extension X which >>captures all keypress events and forwards it to the desired native >>input method, and the desired native input method then translate >>that keycode and returns it back to the plugin X. The plugin X then >>will then forward the translated text to the Firefox text component. > > [...] > > I do not follow what you are proposing here. Firefox works on platforms > other than those running X, so that an extension cannot assume an > underlying X server. This is why I'm mentioning here native. A native IME, when hooked into Firefox running (on Microsoft Windows) will use IMM (Input Method Manager) API, whereas IME hooked into Firefox running (on X-Windows) will use XIM (or explicitly use SCIM or IIIMF). BTW, there has to be separate binaries for different platforms (if Firefox doesn't supports loading ELF executables on Microsoft Windows) ? > If you are running Firefox on a system with X, > why would you not run SCIM directly, instead of through this roundabout > method? What you mean by running SCIM. Do u mean executing /usr/bin/scim ? Well I've done that and there is no change in Firefox or Thunderbird. They're still typing in English. BTW, no SCIM chooser menus appears except a icon of "keyboard" gets stored in my system tray. Well on running SCIM, it registers itself with X Server. My "list_im" program tells me this (appeared sometimes in this mailing list or its devel mailing list with subject "Listing available XIM (X Input Method) services"). But my question is how an generic X application can use that X Input Method ? Is there any protocol for input methods ? Or application has to explicitly made aware about that input method (in my case it is SCIM and IIIMF) ? > > Regards, > Gora > My Regards too ;-), Ashish Shukla "Wah Java !!" -- आशीष शुक्ला alias "Wah Java !!" http://wahjava.blogspot.com/ The only key to optimal life is precision. -- Ashish Shukla "Wah Java !!" http://wahjava.blogspot.com/2006/03/useful-thought.html _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
