[Mono-winforms-list] XIM support

[Eric Albright]

Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Hello John,
>
>   
>> In the next 4 months, we’ll reach a point where our SWF/MWF app, which
>> runs on the OLPC, will have to be re-written in GTK or QT for lack of
>> custom-keyboard ability
>> ( https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=320988 ).  Being a
>> Windows shop, we don’t have the first clue how to go about adding this
>> ourselves.
>>     
>
> When is your hard deadline for this, and what kind of support are you
> looking for?
>
> The XIM as far as I know is used for entering international characters
> that might not be present on the keyboard (beyond the basic X setup).
> Do you need something beyond the base X setup?
>
>   
Our clients switch between many input languages (at least two sometimes 
as many as four). These languages are a mixture of major languages (like 
English, Chinese, French, and Thai) and minority languages, which often 
times have minor variations from the national language and require 
custom keyboard support. KMFL (http://kmfl.sourceforge.net/) addresses 
this need for custom keyboard support and uses SCIM.
> Could you describe what is the particular scenario, there might be a
> subset of the bug that can be implemented.
>
>   
There is a default input method associated with each field such that our 
application automatically switches to that input method in windows and 
the user doesn't have to manually switch input method editors.
> Miguel
>   
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Eric