> > For the moment, im-ja seems to be a primarily a convenient way > > to get Japanese input into a running gtk2 application without > > logging into a full Japanese locale, or using the command > > line to manually launch XIM servers, set variables, etc. > > However, GTK+2 input method has a problem that it depends on GTK+2, > a relatively heavy toolkit. For example, can I hope Xterm to support > GTK+2 input methods? > > There are many softwares which advertise themselves as "lightweight". > Is the availability of such softwares a priviledge of European-language > speaking people? > > The advantage of XIM is that it is supported by X11R6 itself and > doesn't need any additional libraries, thus it fits for lightweight > softwares.
gnome-terminal and multi-gnome-terminal are fairly lightweight. Also, the user interface used to configure, interact with, and use the input method has to use some toolkit. I'd say gtk2 is as good a choice as another. As for emacs, the mule method has a long history, so I'm not sure that emacs users would be interested in a new input method. Also, the gtk2 input method likely would not work over a console-only connection, but neither would a XIM input method,... -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
