Multilingual and Asian input methods

> Jeff Waugh 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.
> 
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 03:30:10AM +1000, Adam Conrad wrote:
> 
> 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.

As Adam said, this is actually a project of two parts.  I can do
packaging (and I think I am quite competent on that), but probably not
much about coding for the d-i and desktop integration part.  We
definitely need more help.

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

What Adam said.  I'm not sure if we can make it for dapper, but we are
progressing on that direction.

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2005.10.21