Edward Cherlin wrote:
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.
I don't understand .... the switching works pretty well :) on ,y debian linux box with gnome 2.2 and the keyboard-applet.
My wife and myself work in 3 or 4 langages with french, russian, and english keyboard ... we use mozilla for the mail, openoffice for every text work .
It works well !
I never tried to use Japanese or Korean, but the input methods in the gnome2.2 text widget permits it.
hope this help.
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