Tomohiro KUBOTA writes:
> - Since Japanese input engine is very complex and difficult to implement,
> there are many Japanese input engines, including free and proprietary.
> Japanese people have their own preference on input engines. Thus,
> developing a new UTF-8 XIM cannot be a solution for Japanese users
> because Japanese users will want to use their own input engines.
> ... However, some Japanese users love a certain version
> of a certain input engine, for various reasons
Given this situation, I'd recommend to Bram to use iconv.
There is some support for automatic conversion from/to UTF-8 in
XFree86 4.0.2 (e.g. Xutf8ResetIC instead of XmbResetIC), but it doesn't
yet cover the callbacks like XNPreeditDrawCallback. Maybe in 4.0.3 ...
Bruno
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Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels
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