[hoary] emacs conflicts with input methods based on XIM

[Shixin Zeng]

I found that if I start emacs with 'env LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.GBK" emacs',
it will work fine, the xim input method will be started by
'Control+Space' correctly.
But it I set my locale to UTF8, i.e zh_CN.UTF-8, then the problem arise.

These days, I was told that a lot of people was suffering from the
problem. I hope someone could figure out where the problem is.

Thanks!


On Mar 29, 2005 5:10 PM, Shixin Zeng <shixinzeng at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:29:31 -0900, Martin Lüthi <luthi at gi.alaska.edu> wrote:
> > Hi Shixin
> >
> >
> Hi Martin
> 
> > Disclaimer: I have no experience with Chinese characters. However here is some
> > advice:
> >
> > Ctrl+Space is the standard way to start a selection in Emacs, so this is
> > definitevely NOT a bug. Where do you want to change the binding of Ctrl+Space?
> > If this is for emacs only, you can do it in the .emacs file with something
> > like
> 
> I know Ctrl+Space is the standard way to set mark, but this is only
> true when it was built without XIM support. When XIM support was
> enabled, the key combination "Ctrl+Space" should be snapped by XIM
> input methods, not emacs itself, as it did on warty.
> 
> > (global-set-key [C-SPC]  'my-chinese-input-function)
> 
> This is useless, because my chinese input method was an external
> program, rather than an internal function in emacs.
> I've tried to unset [C-SPC]. then it told me C-SPC is not defined,
> instead of starting the external input method.
> 
> > where you replace "my-chinese-input-function" with the function accepting the
> > input.
> >
> > If you are doing the input translation everywhere, you should look for the
> > X Window Manager key bindings.
> >
> I think this is not relative to X Windows Manager key bindings, for my
> Chinese input methods work very well anywhere else, even at "emacs
> -nw" as I said in the last mail.
> 
> > Hope this helps
> >
> 
> Thanks anyway
> 
> > Best, Martin
> >
> > --
> > Martin Lüthi                 answer at tnoo.net
> >
> 
> --
> Best regards
> 
> Shixin Zeng
> 


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Best regards

Shixin Zeng