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

["Yu Guanghui" <ygh@dlut.edu.cn>]

hi
   Chinput2.0和3.0都可以支持XIM和自己的Chinput协议。
						saka
-----Original Message-----
From: gis88564 [mailto:gis88564@cis.nctu.edu.tw]
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 3:31 PM
To: Roger So
Cc: debian-chinese-big5@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: [I18n] Simple input methods for X11 available (fwd)



	用 XIM 或自己定一套，倒是无所谓，只要写输入法时注意到
	软体架构的问题就好了，支援了 XIM 并不代表不能同时支援
	其他的 protocol ，我没看过现在支援 XIM 的 xcin 的 source
	code，不知道新版 xcin 不同时支援过去 xcin 2.1 的原因，
	不过，建议未来 xcin 可以考虑一下。:)

	MIM 抓回来看了一下，我倒是满欣赏他定表格的方式，
	可以学习一下。。。

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Roger So wrote:

> 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.
>