Hi, From: Edward H Trager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: supporting XIM Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:29:30 -0500 (EST)
> 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. Is it possible to implement an XIM server as a wrapper for other XIM servers and input method engines/libraries? It would also wrap locale so that UTF-8 softwares would be able to connect with Canna. BTW, mlterm (http://mlterm.sourceforge.net) can switch XIM servers on-the-fly. Since it manages XIM-connecting locale independently from its main locale, it can (for example) use Canna and so on from en_US.UTF-8 locale. I think you can customize mlterm so that you can switch input methods by function keys or other keys. However, such an application-side solution is not very good, because it depends on application softwares and most softwares would have poor input method supports because most of developers in the world don't know very much on input methods. I want all softwares including lightweight ones will able to input/output not only ASCII or 8bit characters but also my mother tongue (Japanese). I don't want to say "Hey, I am lucky! At last I found a Japanese-capable software!". --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
