On Tuesday 25 March 2003 11:07 pm, Glenn Maynard wrote: > 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.
KDE has a decent keyboard and IME switcher in the KDE Control Module. You can install it on the toolbar and choose your hot key combinations from a drop-down menu. -- Edward Cherlin Generalist & activist--Linux, languages, literacy and more "A knot! Oh, do let me help to undo it!" --Alice in Wonderland -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
