Re: [m17n] No compose characters possible with asian language setting

Mike FABIAN ✍:
> Very few applications can switch between XIM like input methods on the
> fly. Actually the only one I know is mlterm. With mlterm you can do
> the switch between @im=kinput2 and @im=local without restarting
> mlterm.
>
> In OpenOffice you cannot do this.
>
> There are XIM servers which can switch between several input methods,
> for example on SuSE Linux there are SCIM and uim which can switch on
> the fly between different input methods.
>
> It looks rather easy to add a input method similar to Compose to SCIM
> and/or uim. I'll try to do that if I have a bit of free time.
> That would solve your problem.
>
> Another solution is to use IIIMF instead of XIM. IIIMF is the
> designated successor of XIM and allows to switch input methods on the
> fly. This is one of the design features of IIIMF. Because of lack of
> time I have not yet created IIIMF packages for SuSE Linux though.  But
> I plan to do that soon.
I, too, am a skim/scim user and miss being able to use the Compose key. It's 
been several years since and the scim developer does not understand or does 
not care.

Would you contribute a patch where Compose works under @im=scim exactly like 
under @im=local?

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