[Uim] uim environment problems

[Jan Willem Stumpel]

What are the opinions on this list about the Debian im-switch 
system (which is now automatically installed when you install uim)?

After some recent Debian (Sid) upgrade uim-xim did not work 
anymore on my system. It turned out that some new file, 
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/90im-switch, unset the XMODIFIERS and 
GTK_IM_MODULE environment variables.

It seems im-switch makes the default assumption that only people 
whose LANG setting is Japanese, Chinese, or Korean would ever have 
need of uim. For instance:

   jws at vega:~$ im-switch -l
   No alternatives defined for language en_GB
   =======================================================
   The following languages have been configured to use input
   methods:
   ja_JP

But I think the whole point of UTF-8 internationalisation is that 
anybody should be able to input any language, no matter what the 
(GUI) interface language of the user's computer happens to be.

Regards, Jan