Desktop-wide input language info

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Greetings,

I'm writing to this list at the request of Jim Gettys, currently at
OLPC. *nix desktops currently have a big problem propagating language
state info. This impacts both spellchecking and even correct text rendering.

The problem, and the solution Jim proposed, are detailed there:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Dev/LanguageAwarenessProblem

(I couldn't post a plain-text version of this page to the list,
something is eating the message on the way.)

Please implement Jim's solution, or any better one you can think of.

Regards,

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[Mark Tiefenbruck]

I think this would be more appropriate on the xdg mailing list.

  Mark

On 10/6/07, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@...> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm writing to this list at the request of Jim Gettys, currently at
> OLPC. *nix desktops currently have a big problem propagating language
> state info. This impacts both spellchecking and even correct text rendering.
>
> The problem, and the solution Jim proposed, are detailed there:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Dev/LanguageAwarenessProblem
>
> (I couldn't post a plain-text version of this page to the list,
> something is eating the message on the way.)
>
> Please implement Jim's solution, or any better one you can think of.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Mailhot
>
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[Nicolas Mailhot]

Mark Tiefenbruck a écrit :
> I think this would be more appropriate on the xdg mailing list.

Well since Jim Gettys thinks the solution is to define new X11
properties, It may belong there. But I'll copy xdg list anyway.

> On 10/6/07, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@...> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm writing to this list at the request of Jim Gettys, currently at
>> OLPC. *nix desktops currently have a big problem propagating language
>> state info. This impacts both spellchecking and even correct text rendering.
>>
>> The problem, and the solution Jim proposed, are detailed there:
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Dev/LanguageAwarenessProblem
>>
>> (I couldn't post a plain-text version of this page to the list,
>> something is eating the message on the way.)
>>
>> Please implement Jim's solution, or any better one you can think of.

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[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:16:29PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Mark Tiefenbruck a écrit :
> > I think this would be more appropriate on the xdg mailing list.
>
> Well since Jim Gettys thinks the solution is to define new X11
> properties, It may belong there. But I'll copy xdg list anyway.

It looks like xdg list is already deep in a discussion of this exact
stuff anyway (though with DBus rather than X as the communication
medium, which seems plausible):
  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-October/thread.html

-- Nathaniel

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