Multilingual and Asian input methods

<quote who="David Oftedal">

> 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.

We need solid feedback and guidance...

> 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).

... more solid than that. ;-) We haven't had the expertise available to make
the right choices so far. We want to, and we have the infrastructure to make
it completely rock once we choose the appropriate software/packages. But we
need to get a good spec for how to do it in the most useful way.

- Jeff

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