[luau] New Asian Input Method Project

[Warren Togami]

http://www.li18nux.org/subgroups/im/IIIMF/

I was just informed by a Red Hat engineer that they have 3 people
working on this new Asian Input Method project to replace the current
XIM system that anyone that uses Asian input (Chinese, Japanese or
Korean) in Unix can tell you is terribly inconvenient and ugly.  IIIMF
appears to be in early development but they appear to have a formal plan
in place with some code already done.

What is IIIMF?

IIIMF stands for Internet/Intranet Input Method Framework. IIIMF is
designed to be the next generation of input method framework which
provides the following capabilities;
# Multiplatform, platform independent
# Multlingual and Full UNICODE support, but satisfactory for native
speakers
# Windowing System Independent
# Multiple language engines concurrently run
# Multiuser
# Distributed, lightweight clients and scalable server
# Extensible in multiple means
# Input method protocol efficient enough to be used over low-speed modem
connection

IIIM Server Framework

The IIIM Server Framework(IIIMSF) is, unlike XIM Server, a platform
independent, Windowing system independent, multilingual and multiuser
input method server framework. IIIM Server runs as a system daemon on
UNIX, or as a system service on Windows. Unlike XIM server running as
per-user server, single IIIM server process provides input method
service to multiple users in multiple languages simultaneously. At this
moment, IIIM Server is known to run on UNIX flavored OSs and Windows. 
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