Multilingual and Asian input methods

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 19:19 +0200, David Oftedal wrote:
> >... 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
> >  
> >
> Would it be possible to get the packages working in the meantime, 
> though? I know they actually work for some people, but all in all they 
> seem to be in a pretty bad state. As far as SCIM is concerned, I could 
> try recompiling it from source myself and seeing if it works properly. I 
> know the version currently included with Breezy doesn't, though, since I 
> already tried.
> 
> -David
> 

I'm currently using UIM, which works well for Japanese input. Haven't
got it to work with Chinese input well as of yet (can't say I've tried
all that hard). 

The last time I tried SCIM it caused Gtk applications to freeze, until I
killed everything SCIM related. But SCIM looks quite interesting so I'd
really like to get it to work. Haven't tried IIIMF yet, so I can't
comment on it.

I asked about input method frameworks a while ago, I think back in early
Hoary development, and was then no decisions had been taken as of yet
regarding which input method frameworks to support. Since we are still
at the same stage, I'd like to help out to make sure that this works as
well as many other parts of Ubuntu.

I'm sure there are several others out there who need multilingual input
to "just work". Let's make it happen. 

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