[tlug] canna, anthy, m17n, skk, freewnn....what's the difference?

[Gábor Farkas <gabor@example.com>]

hi,

i'm using uim to input japanese. it works well..
for now i am using anthy.

but uim supports a lot of these conversion engines or how to call
them :)

canna, anthy, skk, m17n, freewnn.....
does anyone know about a comparison between them?
which one is recommended? why?

it's quite hard to learn anything about them because their
webpages/README/INSTALL files usually in japanese, and i'm just
beginning to learn jpn.

so:
which conversion engine do you use, and why?

p.s: i tried to search the list, but the search system does not work. it
only displays the number of hits, but not the found mails. so i know
that there are some interesting mails,
i just cannot see them..:))))) VERY annoying ;)

thanks,
gabor