merge prjoects / move to freedesktop.org

Jim Gettys Jim.Gettys at hp.com
Fri Feb 20 18:06:56 EET 2004


On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 21:55, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Hello. I'm zhangweiwu from the minichinput project.
> 
> After lots of discussion, we and the fcitx project team decide to merge
> and ask to move to freedesktop.org, host our new merged project there. 
> The new project name is proposed "AfterChinput", but the name is not 
> fixed yet. (comment on this! :)
> 
> minichinput project and fcitx project are not as famouse in the free
> software world world as they are amone Chinese world:) We are two of the
> most widely used Chinese X input method server (XIM server), both in
> GPL. As far as I know, the two software together have more than half of
> the userbase amone Simplified Chinese *nix users. We hope the merge can
> bring stronger/more powerful new software.
> 
> I'd be very happy if you would let us settle down. Still I have one 
> question: Once the project homepage is made, we want it in Chinese as we 
> were (UTF-8 or GB18030). I hope this is not a problem.
> 
I see no problem here.

Keeping us honest on I18N seems like a great plan to me :-).
                       - Jim

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Jim Gettys <Jim.Gettys at hp.com>
HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory





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