[hiura@unicode.org: Re: [I18n] API for XIM server side]

[Tung-Han Hsieh <thhsieh@twcpro.phys.ntu.edu.tw>]

(遙頭苦笑 ....)

這個間諜真不好當，每天都要很用功才行 ....

這一篇是與 XIM server 有關的，我猜可能可以做為 IMdkit 的後繼人
選。但因為我們已在 IMdkit 中做了一些特殊修改 (就是防止 rxvt crash
的修改)，故不曉得下文所提的 IIIM 適不適用。但我想值得花時間去看
看 :-))

T.H.Hsieh

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From: hiura@unicode.org
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 23:21:54 -0800 (PST)
To: i18n@XFree86.Org, thhsieh@linux.org.tw
Subject: Re: [I18n] API for XIM server side
In-Reply-To: <20001220151025.A14830@tlug.sinica.edu.tw>
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Thanks for introducing IMdkit.

I have small information to add.

The IMdkit you referred is almost identical with the original, the
first release of IMdkit by XI18N team of X Consortium. The newer,
improved and clearner version of IMdkit done by the original author of
IMdkit is available as a part of IIIMF/XI18N distribution(as a part of
IIIM server framework) from the www.li18nux.org CVS tree. 

Actually, the entire IIIM server framework and the leif (Language Engine
InterFace) are the successor of original IMdkit as a whole.
So you do not have to write a lot of duplicating code to add your
languege engine. 

The special remarks here, for whom do not see why not current Xutf8*
APIs ;-) is that IMdkit/IIIM server framework uses Unicode
normalization approach for its I18N framework; The major difference
from Xutf8* is that it uses with annotation(as known as higher level
protocol in Unicode terminology) with multi-locale concept.

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> From: thhsieh@linux.org.tw
> Greetings,
> 
> We all know that Xlib has standard API for XIM client side, e.g.,
> XOpenIM(), XCreateIC(), XSetIMValues(), XmbLookupString() .... etc.
> But in my knowledge, there is no standard API for XIM server part.
> Therefore, to write a XIM server, we usually have to explore some
> un-documented function calls inside Xlib. For example, a library
> named "IMdkit"
> 
> 	ftp://xcin.linux.org.tw/pub/xcin/misc/IMdkit.tar.gz
> 
> which could make life easy to write a XIM server, but in the library
> it calls _XRegisterFilterByType(), _XRegisterFilterByType(),
> _XimXTransRead() .... function to accomplish its goals. These are
> not the APIs documented in the Xlib programming manual.
> 
> So, is there any plan to add such API into Xlib?
> 
> Thanks very much for your explaination.
> 
> 
> T.H.Hsieh
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