[SCIM] Re: Custom Keyboard Layout Editor/Interpreter for SCIM

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <s3tacrpieev.fsf@magellan.suse.de>, Mike FABIAN <mfabian@suse.de> writes:
>>  You can do that with
>>  export M17NDIR=$HOME/.m17n
>> 
>>  Besides the *.mim , you'll also need a mdb.dir (I think - I haven't
>>  tried without one...)

> But that means you need a complete copy of /usr/share/m17n/ in
> your home directory, even if you want to add or change only
> a little bit. And you will miss updates in /usr/share/m17n
> if the m17n-db package is updated.

No, m17n-lib reads both "mdb.dir"s in M17NDIR and
/usr/share/m17n, and if there is the same entry, use the one
firstly read (i.e. the one in M17NDIR).

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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@m17n.org