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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: a few MULE criticisms
Date: 15 May 2003 07:55:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uptmkaecw.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EC2F56B.1000503@yahoo.co.uk>

Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> I haven't had any experience with i18n support in X nor
> localised X, but I heard that they are somewhat usable. The
> advantage of that approach is that it is available to all
> X-clients (browsers, terminal emulators, editors). As I
> previously said out, my main criticism of using MULE is that
> it can't suggest the next character by association or by
> fuzzy match. The same criticism doesn't seem to apply to
> i18n X support - some l10n X or i18n X system indeed ships
> large dictionaries with the system.

Then Emacs can also take advantage of these, since it supports X
input methods, as well as running under cxterm and similar terminal
emulators. So you can forget about leim, it is just a fallback for
when better input methods are not already provided by the environment
you are running in.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-15  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-14 20:03 a few MULE criticisms, cemacs, & current emacs segfaults by changes in GNU ld Hin-Tak Leung
2003-05-14 20:55 ` Jason Rumney
2003-05-14 22:05   ` a few MULE criticisms Hin-Tak Leung
2003-05-14 21:55 ` a few MULE criticisms, cemacs, & current emacs segfaults by changes in GNU ld Stefan Monnier
2003-05-15  2:03   ` a few MULE criticisms Hin-Tak Leung
2003-05-15  6:55     ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2003-05-15  1:18 ` a few MULE criticisms, cemacs, & current emacs segfaults by changes in GNU ld Kenichi Handa
2003-05-15  1:39   ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-05-15  3:29   ` a few MULE criticisms Hin-Tak Leung
2003-05-15 10:06     ` Hin-Tak Leung
2003-05-15 15:51       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-05-15 19:49         ` Hin-Tak Leung
2003-05-15 21:29           ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-05-16  7:09           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-05-16 11:43             ` Hin-Tak Leung
2003-05-17  7:32               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-05-17 19:40                 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2003-05-15  7:03 ` a few MULE criticisms, cemacs, & current emacs segfaults by changes in GNU ld Stephen J. Turnbull
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-18  5:23 a few MULE criticisms Stefan Monnier

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