Kaixo! On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:25:20PM -0500, srintuar26 wrote: > eh, XIM needs to be dropped imo. From personal observation, building > tools such as XIM and IIIMF which are integrated into the X server is > the wrong way to go, and GTK+ input methods seem to work much better.
The problem is, when you use gtk, Qt and other, you end up with three different ways to input text (maybe even have focus/state problems?). The divergeances appearing here are imho a bad thing. It would be a good thing if the actual input methods were available as toolkit independent plug-ins, and gtk and Qt (and others) used them. With a special XIM program able to use them, for compatibility and ability to input text for old programs. That would also allow the creation of console-mode ways of using those input methods; and maybe also a way to use them remotely (I mean, from a machine without input methods capabilities) >> - Text line wrapping. Chinese and Japanese (not Korean) don't use >> whitespace between "words". > > Ooh, that makes me curious: is there a good discussion of how to > line-break Japanese text? I wonder how browsers are doing it... Japanese and Chinese are very easy to line break: you can do it at any place (with the exception that you cannot do it before a dot, comma, colon, semicolon, interrogation point, etc. and closing parenthesis or quotes; and that you cannot do it after an opening parenthesis or quote); What I wonder is if complex scritps languages (those that have the shape of characters change depending on context) do wrod-breaking; and if yes, do the shapes change on the breaking? -- Ki �a vos v�ye b�n, Pablo Saratxaga http://chanae.walon.org/pablo/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0xD9B85466 [you can write me in Walloon, Spanish, French, English, Italian or Portuguese]
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