Emacs and SCIM [Re: [i18n] Input Method and Fonts improvements for Gutsy]

[Micah Cowan]

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Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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?

The C-SPC grabbing only affects X clients that have voluntarily
activated input method support. Emacs is completely unaffected; it does
not use X IMs, as it has its own intrinsic input method support.

I have SCIM installed and activated on my machine, as I occasionally
wish to input in Japanese; this has not impeded my much more usual need
to write in English.

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Micah J. Cowan
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http://micah.cowan.name/

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