[i18n] Input Method and Fonts improvements for Gutsy

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Tue Aug 7 15:03:10 BST 2007


On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:41:39PM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote:
> Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > * Arne Goetje 
> > 
> > | So, for making SCIM the system wide default, the following should be
> > | done on the Live CD and in the default installation:
> > | 1. install and configure scim and its modules
> > | 2. install im-switch
> > | 3. run as root:
> > | 	im-switch -s scim
> > | After a relogin, the user can toggle SCIM on/off by pressing CRTL+SPACE.
> > 
> > Grabbing ctrl-space as a default shortcut is quite unfortunate as this
> > will make emacs more or less useless in the default configuration.
> > C-SPC is used for marking the start or end of a region you want to
> > operate on.
> 
> Well, this is the default key binding for ANY East-Asian input method
> application, be it on Linux or Windows. So, East-Asian users will expect
> it to be this way.

If so, I don't think this is a problem, as it would only affect
installations using languages which require SCIM for native input, correct?

-- 
 - mdz



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