http://www.li18nux.org/subgroups/im/IIIMF/
I was just informed by a Red Hat engineer that they have 3 people working on this new Asian Input Method project to replace the current XIM system that anyone that uses Asian input (Chinese, Japanese or Korean) in Unix can tell you is terribly inconvenient and ugly. IIIMF appears to be in early development but they appear to have a formal plan in place with some code already done. What is IIIMF? IIIMF stands for Internet/Intranet Input Method Framework. IIIMF is designed to be the next generation of input method framework which provides the following capabilities; # Multiplatform, platform independent # Multlingual and Full UNICODE support, but satisfactory for native speakers # Windowing System Independent # Multiple language engines concurrently run # Multiuser # Distributed, lightweight clients and scalable server # Extensible in multiple means # Input method protocol efficient enough to be used over low-speed modem connection IIIM Server Framework The IIIM Server Framework(IIIMSF) is, unlike XIM Server, a platform independent, Windowing system independent, multilingual and multiuser input method server framework. IIIM Server runs as a system daemon on UNIX, or as a system service on Windows. Unlike XIM server running as per-user server, single IIIM server process provides input method service to multiple users in multiple languages simultaneously. At this moment, IIIM Server is known to run on UNIX flavored OSs and Windows. (continued in link)
