On 25 Mar 2003, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author: Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.utf8 > > > > 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.) I second that! I hope the XFree86, KDE, and Gnome people are reading this and thinking about it (especially in light of recent events occuring around XFree86 which may be providing the stimulus for new thinking). I'd also like to be able to see instantaneous, on-the-fly switching of language/locale without having to restart KDE or Gnome or the program being used. I want to be able to just hit a button or key combination to switch everything from, say, English to French, or Chinese, or Japanese... It would be similar to using Yudit where I can easily assign function keys for changing the keyboard map/ input method. > > -hpa > -- > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at work, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in private! > "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." > Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64 > -- > Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ > -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
