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Re: [I18n] Simple input methods for X11 available (fwd)



On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 06:55:08AM +0800, gis88564 wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:04:50 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Mark Leisher <mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu>
> Reply-To: i18n@xfree86.org
> To: i18n@xfree86.org
> Cc: arabic-linux@marko.net, linux-utf8@nl.linux.org, linux-i18n@sun.com
> Subject: [I18n] Simple input methods for X11 available
> 
> The MIM library provides a very small, simple C/C++ API that provides fairly
> sophisticated input methods that are very easy to add to applications.  The
> biggest problem with this library is that you do have to add it to
> applications and recompile them.  But the process is simple, unlike the XIM
> and xmodmap approaches.

This sounds terribly like xcin 2.3; either we need to specifically add
support to applications, or we need to put up with the xa+cv mess again...
I doubt it's better than XIM.  Sure, XIM is bad, but at least it's a 
standard.

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