ÎÏÎÏ 21/ÎÎÏ/2005, ÎÎÎÏÎ ÎÎÏÏÎÏÎ ÎÎÎ ÏÏÎ 18:36, Î/Î Jan Willem Stumpel ÎÎÏÎÏÎ: > Would like to get comments & criticism especially about the > âinputâ part: > > http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T6.3
1. There are scripts the have a different "class" of complexity than CJK, typically the Indic languages, Khmer, Lao, Burmese and so on. In some of them, the rendering depends on the characters that come before or follow, and may also require a dictionary to represent them correctly. 2. You mention that "[IIIMF] has zero documentation". The choice of words is not elegant. For IIIMF it's rather simple to setup for Fedora 2, Fedora 3, etc, Ubuntu Linux, Debian and so on. Have a look at http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/i18n/iiimf-faq.html http://www.openi18n.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=30&page=1 http://apac.redhat.com/iiimftest/ http://anakin.ncst.ernet.in/~aparna/consolidated/x2004.html You can write in most Indic languages using IIIMF doing transliteration. 3. GTK+ IM is not limited to some Gnome ("GNOME") programs but works throughout the GNOME Desktop Environment and Development Platform. Specific applications that use the GTK+ library, namely Firefox/Thunderbird and OpenOffice.org have problems with keyboard shortcuts when you are typing in the "other" language, but that's another issue. It looks bad to critisize GTK+ IM without explaining what your complaint is about. 4. Thanks for mentioning im-classicalgreek. An alternative is to use XIM and selecting "polytonic". Have a look at http://www.livejournal.com/users/simos74/32918.html (sorry, it's in Greek). GTK+ IM would work for Ancient Greek when the following issue gets resolved: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167940 Else, one can use XIM. It's an interesting document what you are writing and I am would interested to see how it progresses. Best regards, Simos Xenitellis -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
