Multilingual and Asian input methods

Hello!

I've noticed that there's been some discussion on this list about what 
multilingual input method to standardize on in future releases of 
Ubuntu. Unfortunately, as it is now, none of the well-known ones are 
working in Breezy.

SCIM, which is probably the most user-friendly alternative, has a bug 
which makes it segfault. Breezy uses a pretty old version, so this might 
have been fixed in a newer release.

UIM, which is similar to SCIM except it's less advanced with regards to 
Chinese input and lacks a menu for switcing between different languages, 
has a bug which sometimes makes it crash programs, especially 
gnome-terminal, when the user switches between input methods.

IIIMF is included with Breezy, but unfortunately the input modules 
aren't. Like on Fedora Core, IIIMF does absolutely nothing out of the 
box on Breezy.

It's a bit sad that despite Ubuntu being such a user-friendly product, 
such essential software as input methods have been stashed away in 
Universe and left in a non-working state. As for the standardization 
issue, I would suggest that it might be a good idea to focus on SCIM for 
the time being (though don't take my word for it).

Best regards

David Oftedal