Re: JOE editor has just added UTF-8 support

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 05:10:42PM +0300, Vasilis Vasaitis wrote:

> Programs that use the GTK+ library use GTK+'s own composition 
> mechanism by default, instead of the one supplied by X.

Thanks very much, this clears up a lot. A few more questions:

1. Most GTK+ programs allow right-clicking in text boxes to change the
input method, but Mozilla, unfortunately, does not. But it *is* affected
by the GTK_IM_MODULE=xim environment variable, so it appears to be a
GTK+ program all right. In fact, starting Mozilla (from the command
line) with

GTK_IM_MODULE=im-ja mozilla

works, resulting in a Mozilla which accepts Japanese input -- without
using kinput2!

Now it would be extremely nice if this could also be done (somehow)
dynamically, "on the fly". GTK+ programs seem to be able to do this, so
(I think) Mozilla should be able to do it also. Is there a way to
achieve this?

2. In programs which *do* allow right-clicking for input method
selection, the "default" input method is (apparently) less useful than
the "xim" input method, because of the less-than-perfect Compose
implementation in "default". Is there a way to make xim the "default"?
Anyway, what exactly is the "default" in the input methods menu? Where
is it defined?

Regards, Jan


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