On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Jungshik Shin wrote:
> > ...functionality such as Unicode input editing
> > belongs in a user-level daemon rather than in the kernel.  The vast
> > majority of user keyboard input already passes through at least one such
> > daemon anyway...
> 
>   You're probably  right that issues above had better be dealt with
> 'user-land' input methods/daemon/whatever if possible. But, then,
> for characters that have been permitted (not in pre-editing stage),
> 'user-land' input methods can't do much...

Almost always, nowadays, there *is* at least one user-land process involved
in input where you might want editing, whether it be a terminal emulator or
an X server.  So the problem has user-land solutions in principle; I'm not
saying it would be particularly simple...

                                                          Henry Spencer
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