Re: XIM, kinput2 & Tk

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Breen <jwb@example.com> writes:

    >>> No, you tell them to go to Mama Microsoft.  That's what
    >>> Microsoft is for.

    Jim> Now, now. Even in the *nix world that's totally heretical.

I'm serious.  Right now that is often the right solution.  Microsoft
can afford to throw a few million dollars at these problems to make
sure the apps work for the vast majority of Microsoft users (even if
they're horribly broken from the point of view of others).  We can't.

What's so heretical about admitting that things are broken now, but
that there will probably be a consensus solution within a year or two,
and that in five years most apps will be using it?

    Jim> Yep. Unix/Linux is only for he-man users.

For the moment, if you want to do something more complicated than run
a localized OS (ie, set LANG in /etc/profile and forget about it), it
is.  Truth hurts, but it's truth.

I don't understand what you're trying to advocate.  Things _are_
broken now, they will _stay_ broken (although details of which apps
are broken how will change from week to week) until we put general
solutions in place and convert blinkered developers and legacy apps to
use them.  The general solution we have _now_ is POSIX locales.  All
else is vapor.  So what do you want?

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