IIIMF (Was: Re: SCIM IM)

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 15:59, Edward H. Trager wrote:
> On Friday 2005.02.18 04:36:21 -0800, Elvis Presley wrote:
> > Thanks Everyone...
> > 
> > I'm slowly getting the idea.
> > 
> > I just found a little file on the Fedora called '/etc/sysconfig/i18n' which
> > contains what appear to be environment variables setting the locale. That would
> > explain why nobody is using .profile anymore.
> 
> I believe that Mandrake uses an i18n file too.  Mandrake sets every single "LC_" variable
> explicitely.  I think it is better to only set the "LANG" variable, and then only
> set "LC_" variables that one wants to override the default for whatever locale "LANG" is
> set to.
> 
> > Now, what about "input methods?"
> > 
> 
> Try SCIM (http://www.scim-im.org).  The latest version of SCIM comes with a
> modern Vietnamese input method.  Recall that modern Vietnamese basically uses the Latin alphabet
> with numerous diacritical marks on the letters.  One could easily create a similar input method
> map for polytonic Greek, for example.

Talking about Input Methods, another option is IIIMF, at 
http://www.openi18n.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=30&page=1
At least Fedora Core 3 supports it, and if predictions go ok, it should
replace all other input methods, but that's another thread...
You can get packages for Debian/Ubuntu as well, if not other distros.

Simos


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