Hi, At Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:08:22 -0400 (EDT), Jungshik Shin wrote:
> Well, Korean XIM's (such as Ami) do support Korean and Japanese input > although entering the latter is rather inconvenient :-). A better example > would have been, as you did later, Japanese and French. Even in this > case, in theory, a single XIM can be extended to support as many input > methods/keyboard layouts as it wants to. Obviously, we don't want to > do that because that means devlopers of every single XIM have to repeat > what others have done for other XIMs. Of course, someone can develop such an XIM server. I didn't say that it is impossible. However, someone has to do the job. Since it is a difficult work (at least, for me) to develop a new XIM server, I like Pablo's idea (proxyIM). The another good point of Pablo's idea is that it can support existing XIM servers and users' preference of XIM servers. You know, there are several Japanese XIM servers and input engines and they have different characteristics. A Japanese person likes Canna+kinput2 but another Japanese likes SKK, another likes Nicolatter, another likes HEKE, and so on. It is just like preference on text editors (vi/emacs) or window managers (twm/fvwm/icewm/afterstep/...). And, Pablo's idea has already be implemented as "ximswitch" which was shipped with Kondara Linux distribution. Please note Kondara Project was closed in this month but most of their softwares are free (in free speech meaning) and available somewhere. Momonga Project (http://www.momonga-linux.org/) has started to develop a new Linux distribution based on Kondara's efforts. However, I heard that ximswith doesn't run on XFree86 libX11. > Seriously, I can't agree with you more that we need a input method > framework under which users of every compliant X11 client can easily > switch among multiple input methods/keyboards (as is possible under > MS Windows and MacOS 9 or X.) I think IIIMF(Internet/Intranet Input > Method Framework) and its Xlib client IIIMXCF(IIIM X Client Framework) > is a (if not the) way to go. See <http://www.li18nux.org/subgroups/im>. I am afraid that IIIMF require Li18nux's version of libX11.... I would be happy if XFree86 will integrate the efforts of Li18nux people. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
