X ComposeIM [Was: Re: [SCIM] Can anyone revise my doc for newbies?

[Zhe Su]

Hi,

Thank you very much.
However, it seems that this method is hard to use :-)

Regards
James Su

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:21:30 -0700 (PDT), Hideki Hiura
<hiura at openi18n.org> wrote:
> James,
> 
> > From: Zhe Su <james.su at gmail.com>
> > Could you please give me some hint on how to switch between compose
> > and xim on the fly? I know nothing about it.
> 
> If I remember correctly, XFree86 4.2.0 must already have XI18N code
> incorporated.
> There are a couple of points you need to verify on your X settings.
> The enhancement in XComposeIM regarding switching is triggered
> by the new directives in "Compose" file.
> 
> You can define the switching by
> 
> STATE "[ state name ]"
> 
> key sequence            : SWITCH_STATE_TO "[ state name ]"
> 
> For switching to remote IM, you can use
> STATE_TYPE: REMOTE_IM
> derective.
> 
> For example, using European composition with Japanese input method
> server, the definition would be something like
> 
> STATE "[ English/European ]"
> <Multi_key> <j> <a>     : SWITCH_STATE_TO "[ Japanese ]"
> Ctrl<T> <j> <a>         : SWITCH_STATE_TO "[ Japanese ]"
> 
> <Multi_key> <plus> <plus>               : "\x23"        numbersign
> <Multi_key> <apostrophe> <space>        : "\x27"        apostrophe
>             :
>  [omitted  bunch of definition of deadkey/composition rules for European]
> 
> END_STATE
> 
> STATE "[ Japanese ]"
> STATE_TYPE: REMOTE_IM
> Ctrl<space>             : SWITCH_STATE_TO "[ English/European ]"
> LANGUAGE : ja
> END_STATE
> 
> Early Solaris's multilingual input enabling with CDE was done with
> this mechanism. Here is how it looked like:
> 
>      http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-0169/6j9hsml3o?a=view
> 
> Hideki
>