[Uim] A proposal of unified input method C API.

[James Su]

Hi,
  The current status of this API:

1. I'm developing SCIM adapter for this API, and had already a prototype 
to support the basic part (IME_Functions/IMM_Functions). The full 
adapter including IME_Helper support will be available within one or to 
month.
2. Sun and SunWah Linux, which are both using IIIMF, are developing 
their own adapter for this API, and hopefully will be available within 
one or two month as well. So IIIMF will be support this API too.
3. A draft of Chinese Standard including this API will be proposed to 
Chinese government within this month.
4. During the CJK linux conference held in Korea the last month, Korean 
government has an announcement that they will follow this standard very 
closely.

Regards
James Su

YamaKen wrote:

>Hi James,
>
>At Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:55:10 +0800,
>suzhe at tsinghua.org.cn wrote:
>  
>
>>  Please have a look at the attached header file, it's a standard input 
>>method C API which is included in Chinese Linux Standard (I'm a member 
>>of it). All members in this standard group have promised to support such 
>>API (including Sun, redhat, Novell/SUSE, ThizLinux, SW-Linux, etc.)
>>
>>  This API does not provide any library, and does not need to link 
>>against any external libraries. It's just a pure C API which uses 
>>function pointers to realize the communication between input method 
>>modules (IME) and input method manager (IMM, eg. uim, scim, etc.). So 
>>it'll have good binary portability and very easy to deploy.
>>    
>>
>
>Thank you for the effort.
>
>The basic concept is beneficial for uim and application
>developers. All of uim developers had already been agreed with
>the necessity about such unified API since you and me had been
>discussed in June.
>
>Before commenting about each specifications, please let us know
>the timeschedule, roadmap or your plan of the API if exists.
>
>The API seems to contain capability about uim API (thanks), but
>following architectures of uim will be changed drastically in
>next several months. I'm devoted in the restructuring.
>
>- input event (key event)
>- helper property, and customization
>
>So we will comment better about these parts of the API after the
>restructure.
>
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>YamaKen  yamaken at bp.iij4u.or.jp
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