[LUAU] X Input Methods
MonMotha
monmotha at indy.rr.com
Tue Oct 12 11:40:46 PDT 2004
Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
> Hi MonMotha-
>
> Unless you are willing to become an expert in emacs/mule, your best bet
> at the present time is to go with Fedora.
>
> Sorry this violates your "No distro specific" mandate. But, again at
> the present time, the implementation of "alternate input methods" in
> Fedora (and in RHEL) is so superior to all other distros, I just don't
> see any way not to discuss it.
>
> Since FC2, Red Hat has decided to use iiimf as the (universal) default
> input method for CJK. It was a disaster when first came out and many
> users immediately switched to the old method (e.g., kinput2 for
> Japanese, xcin for traditional Chinese, Chinput for simplified Chinese,
> nabi for Korean, etc.) after installation.
>
> However, with FC3-Test 3, iiimf seems to be in an amazingly good shape.
> Fecora Core 3 also provides an im-switching tool for users to move
> between iiim and any of the old im protocols.
>
> At the present time, iiimf is being developed mainly by corporate
> developers (Red Hat, IBM, Sun, Novell, and a couple of smaller companies
> in Hong Kong and Japan), and there is very little documentation. I am
> sure this will improve when iiimf gets into a better shape.
>
> Red Hat has made iiimf a GTK2 module. To invoke it, all you need to do
> is to specify the locale and run the module (and use control-space key
> combo to switch b/t your default language and the new language). To
> input Japanese characters, you will first type in Romanji (Roman
> characters) using your English keyboard. Your screen will show the
> corresponding Katakana. Then you can use the down cursor key to flip
> into Hirigana, Kanji, and back to Katakana. wayne
>
>
The issue isn't how a specific distro packages it. Fedora may do a very
nice job of that, and I'm sure it has a nice pretty frontend to set it up.
What I'm interested in knowing is what actually needs to be done to set
this up. I don't care if I have to recompile my X and GTK pacakges to
make it work; I'm fully capable of doing so.
The question is not a request for a step by step toutorial. What I want
to know is what actually needs to be done. I'm willing to read install
instructions to make things happen. I manage my config files by hand for
a reason. If I need to change something, there's no frontend to mess up
by doing so.
Oh, and Debian appears to have iiimf available as a GTK module as well.
In a way, you did answer the question (albeit with a bunch of useless
information as I *will not* run Redhat or anything derrived directly from
it, I learned my lesson with RedHat 6.2 and 9).
--MonMotha
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