On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 05:12:12PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > However, locale-dependence itself is not a bad thing. For > > example, XCIN supports both of traditional and simplified > > Chinese depending on locale. We can imagine about an > > improvement that the default mode would be determined by > > locale even when it would support run-time switching of > > traditional and simplified Chinese. > > Indeed. It would be nice to at some point in the future be able to > edit, for example, Swedish-langauge document and suddently decide I > need to insert some Japanese text, call up the appropriate input > method, without having to have anticipated this need (other than > having it installed, of course.)
As a person who's only done IM-related stuff in Windows, this seems fundamental. I simply hit lcontrol+lshift to switch between English, Japanese, Korean and Finnish (which I seem to have accidentally installed) input systems. X is miles behind in this, unfortunately. -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
