Re: JOE editor has just added UTF-8 support

[Mike FABIAN <mfabian@xxxxxxx>]

Derek Martin <unicoder@xxxxxxxxxx> さんは書きました:

> On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 04:10:44PM -0400, jmaiorana@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> 
>> For the (aspirant) multilinguals among us, I would say no. The ability
>> to change input methods on the fly, halfway through filling in a form,
>> is somewhat cruicial.
>> 
>> (For this, xim seems to be mostly useless.)
>
> Not so, at least for Korean.  But I guess it depends on what IME
> you're using...  The Ami input editor allows you to switch back and
> forth with a single keystroke.

Only between English (or whatever direct keyboard input does for you)
and Korean. But Ami cannot switch to Japanese of course.

> I don't know what language you're
> trying to learn, but I suspect the IME for that language works
> similarly.

If you use an XIM for Japanese, you can usually only switch
between Japanese and English, if you use an XIM for Chinese,
you can usually only switch between Chinese and English.

There are some exceptions (SCIM, uim), but most XIM servers can only
switch between direct keyboard input and the one language they are
designed for. That's not good for multilingual use.

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