Re: Entering Japanese Text

From: Raphael Finkel (raphael@cs.uky.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 20:35:16 EST

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    Martin and David (and others!)

    > > Can someone point me at the software I need to enter Japanese text in
    > > HEAD under Linux? I'm on PPC, so source is better than binaries. I've
    > > found some instructions on the web, but they're all in Japanese, and my
    > > Japanese isn't that good yet.
    > >
    > The first thing you need to do is to get XIM working.
    > Unfortunately none of the core AbiWord hackers have much experience with
    > this. There was good post by Raphael a few days ago explaining his
    > attempts to get things working. I suspect that it is not too hard but we
    > need explicit help from XIM users.

    I am in communication with the folks at gtk+; they support XIMs, but not the
    way my XIM works. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102779 for
    details.

    Also, AbiWord needs to tell gtk+ that it has focus. Here is some communication
    I have had with Hidetoshi Tajima <Hidetoshi.Tajima@Eng.Sun.COM>:

    --- inserted communication

    > > Raphael wrote:
    > >2. AbiWord cannot toggle into XIM mode; testtext can. Again, a likely bug
    > >in AbiWord.
    > >
    > Toshi answered:
    > Maybe because of a lack of XSetICFocus() call? If so, will you please
    > try to put gtk_im_context_focus_in() call when AbiWord's window takes
    > input focus?

    Raphael answered:
    gtk_im_context_focus_in() takes a (GtkIMContext *) parameter. AbiWord never
    builds any GtkIMContext! Should AbiWord call gtk_im_context_simple_new() once
    to generate a GtkIMContext and just reuse that GtkIMContext every time it calls
    gtk_im_context_simple_new()? Does AbiWord need to call
    gtk_im_context_focus_out() when it loses focus?

    Have you any idea why AbiWord is creating 4 connections (to XIM_OPEN) instead
    of 1? It is only calling gtk_init() once, so far as I can tell. But it is
    creating several widgets.

    --- end of inserted communication

    I haven't gotten an answer yet, but at least he has given us a starting point.
    I have never programmed for gtk+; it is all a mystery to me. It is quite
    poorly documented, at least for XIM usage.

    Raphael

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