Multilingual and Asian input methods

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
>>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.

I've been discussing this off and on with the Debian SCIM maintainer,
and (time and volunteer testing permitting) we're committing to getting
this whole mess sorted in a much more reasonable fashion for dapper.

This includes cleaning up the packages themselves, as well as attempting
to pick reasonably sane defaults for each language, so that installing
support for a new language via our handy-dandy language-selector can
also install a workable input method for you.

Not sure how much of this we'll manage to get to, but it IS being looked
at, both in Debian and Ubuntu.

... Adam