On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 18:31, Gaspar Sinai wrote: > The development time required is important. People usually write > just a few input methods for the scripts they know - if has a steep > learning curve they might not even start. I did look at IIMF: > http://www.li18nux.org/subgroups/im/IIIMF/index.html > and tried to make it work - but it required too much time so > I gave up.
Have you revisited the above page recently? In particular, a C library (libiiimf) will be released shortly, which will greatly simplify the development of IIIMP clients and servers, just like what Xlib did to the X protocol. (Well, Xlib is just bearable, but it's much better than working on the raw protocol.) > o A collection of input methods that can be transparently activated > and could pass utf-8 input string from any of its input methods, > selectable programmatically, or even from an external GUI of the > input method collection. This way we could avoid restaring > naive programs with a new XMODIFIERS variable. IIIM clients are meant to be able to switch to different IIIM language engines at runtime. It's implemented in Xlib-I18N, available as part of the IIIMF source. It's also implemented in Solaris 8 and 9. Regards Roger -- Roger So Debian Developer Sun Wah Linux Limited i18n/L10n Project Leader Tel: +852 2250 0230 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +852 2259 9112 http://www.sw-linux.com/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
