XIM, kinput2 & Tk

[jwb@example.com (Jim Breen)]

G'day,

Here is a question I have just posted on comp.lang.tcl. Perhaps 
someone in TLUG can throw some light on it.

 I have walked into a brick wall trying to get TK to engage the common
 Japanese "kinput2" IM. The IM works fine with other apps; I have 
 "tk useinputmethods 1" at the front of the script, but none of the usual
 ways of engaging it (Ctrl + \, Shift + space) do anything. This is with
 RH6.2 (E). I have been discussing it with Keiichi Takahashi, who has it
 working OK with RH7.0(J). As far as we can tell the environments
 are the same apart from local and language settings.
 
 Can it be that the TK code is looking at the language/locale variables,
 and only activating the IM if the setting is non-English? This may
 sound like straw-clutching, but the standard RH xinput script only 
 starts kinput2 if "ja_JP" appears within "LANG", so anything is
 possible.
 
 Needless to say, the documentation for I18N is totally silent on this.

Jim

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Jim Breen  [jwb@example.com  http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/]
Visiting Professor, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of 
Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
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