Posted by: Administrator
on June 10, 2004 05:21 PM
This article is misleading. I've been struggling for years to be able to type Korean (needs an IMM), Greek, and French under a French locale. This simply doesn't work.
For Korean, it simply doesn't work. There's no Korean choice in the KDE Control Center, which is at the least surprizing for such an important language.
For other languages, it may work for native KDE applications, but doesn't work for most other application one uses for everyday work: OpenOffice, Mozilla, etc.
From what I've heard, this is a fundamental bug in X11. A typical symptom is that you can't use a Korean IMM under a non-Korean locale. It seems Gnome try to work around the problem by introducing their own IMMs at the Gnome level. But this looks like a bad hack, adding yet another layer and more complexity to X11 graphics systems. KDE doesn't seem to be using its own IMMs yet.
Maybe this doesn't make much sense, as I didn't have much time to look into the technical details. But as a user, it was a frustrating experience, and certainly not as easy as this article implies.
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This simply doesn't work...
Posted by: Administrator on June 10, 2004 05:21 PMFor Korean, it simply doesn't work. There's no Korean choice in the KDE Control Center, which is at the least surprizing for such an important language.
For other languages, it may work for native KDE applications, but doesn't work for most other application one uses for everyday work: OpenOffice, Mozilla, etc.
From what I've heard, this is a fundamental bug in X11. A typical symptom is that you can't use a Korean IMM under a non-Korean locale. It seems Gnome try to work around the problem by introducing their own IMMs at the Gnome level. But this looks like a bad hack, adding yet another layer and more complexity to X11 graphics systems. KDE doesn't seem to be using its own IMMs yet.
Maybe this doesn't make much sense, as I didn't have much time to look into the technical details. But as a user, it was a frustrating experience, and certainly not as easy as this article implies.
I've given up and moved to Windows XP.
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