On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:01:03AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > Lamerpad, http://www.debian.org.hk/~ypwong/lamerpad.html, seems to > be a good way for developers who don't know CJK languages to test > their own softwares whether they support Kanji input or not.
A partial test, anyway. The IM's I've used need to know the cursor position, to render the current composition, to know where to put selection dialogs, and so on. I'd imagine that this type of program wouldn't test that very well. Unless it shows the best match as a composition string, but I can't run it to see if it does that. > Of course, adoptation of Unicode alone cannot make your software > support CJK languages (more efforts are needed). I hope Lamerpad > will help testing softwares and will lead more softwares supporting > CJK languages. What more is needed? Combining (Korean) and double-width characters (in the case of console apps) are two things that need special attention, but they're both just parts of supporting Unicode. Other than that, and input method support (which is unreasonably difficult at the moment--based on conversations on this list--except in Windows where it's merely annoying), what more is needed in the general case? -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
