Hi James, On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:34:30PM +0800, Zhe Su wrote: > Hi, > Tcl doesn't support xim at all. There are some patches for this > issue. Try search on google.
Thanks for the reply. We (both the bug reporter and I) realize that Tcl/Tk doesn't support xim, and it's mentioned in the bug report. Our problem here is that the ENGLISH character input are broken. We never expected to input Chinese in Tk programs, we are just expecting to input English just fine in xim environment. As you can imagine, lots of scim users set XMODIFIERS and use GTK_IM_MODULE=xim (for input in non-GTK programs, or many other reasons). They know some programs won't accept Chinese input, that's fine. Now the problem is Tk apps don't accept English input. And this make the situation pretty bad, since you can't simply kill scim here, as it would crash many other programs using xim. Also according to ther reporter, scim is the only XIM program that has this problem. I know he tested fcitx, and he can input English in Tk programs just fine. I know scim developers is focusing on gtk-im-module and qt-im-module. But xim support is still very important, in my opinion. I also know that many apps has broken xim supoort, but I would say scim should work around these apps to provide English input. Otherwise people are just going to switch to other IMs that do (or seem) not having problems, and that's a very sad thing. Please cc: the replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Debian BTS tracking, thanks. I forgot to cc: there for my first mail to scim list, sorry. Ming 2005.04.12
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