Re: UTF-8 editor support in Debian?
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 12:11:04AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Please consult my document "Introduction to I18N", which is included
> in Debian Documentation Project. To tell the truth, we don't have
> enough basis for UTF-8/I18N support yet. It cannot be summarized
> to a brief instruction.
>
> The important thing is, please don't "improve" software to handle
> UTF-8 directly. Instead, please improve softwares to be sensible
> to LC_CTYPE locale. (Internal encoding can be Unicode, provided
> that I/O is done using LC_CTYPE encoding.)
>
OK
> I think the most basis of UTF-8 support is UTF-8-enabled console
> and terminal. Unicode support of Linux console covers only a
> small part of Unicode character set. Is someone interested in
> this area? Though I am not familiar with this area, I think "kon2"
> and "jfbterm" packages may give us a hint.
>
> UTF-8-enabled xterm is now under development. I think xterm should
> be LC_CTYPE-sensible. Since the core part of xterm is already
> developed to use Unicode, we will need an encoding converter
> to simulate LC_CTYPE sensibility. In i18n@xfree86 mailing list,
> two implementations of Robert Brady's patch and "luit" are under
> development for this purpose. I am a member of this list for
> more than half a year.
>
Yes, it's on xterm where I've had my successful UTF-8 testing. It's a
real buzz to be able to type european, russian, japanese, thai,
hebrew, greek letters all at the same time (using cat and the gnome
keyboard selector).
> There are a few project of UTF-8-enabled editors. Yudit, Mule-UCS,
> Vim, and so on. However, note that multilingual editor will need
> multilingual input method. You will not want to input Japanese
> and Russian in UCS codepoint, won't you? I heard that "im-sdk"
> (available from Li18nux, http://www.li18nux.org) is available
> for multilingual input. You will also want to study developing
> XIM (X Input Method) client.
>
The X keyboard selector would be the most appropriate to me (Gnome at
least has a keyboard selector applet for switching between languages).
It works great on the xterm console. Is XIM an native X selector?
Thanks for the links and the things to think about,
Drew
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