Re: back/x11 XIM fix [was: Re: Gworkspace with non-fragile abi, etc?]

[Lee, Seong-Gu]

On 08/22/2013 07:39 AM, Eric Wasylishen wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for the feedback. I'll just address this one question:
> 
>> 3) XIM at X11 backends
>> To input non-latin character at text box of gnustep applicaton, I tried
>> all XIM such as ibus, scim, uim, fcitx, but failed. After then, this
>> document was found:
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Input ( http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/I18n )
>>    NSTextInput protocol
>>    NSInputManager
>> Current Status
>>    Currently we use XIM. It is only available on systems that use the
>> X11 backends.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Default backend at linux seems to be cairo. Does not cairo backend
>> support XIM? When backend was changed into xlib, applications were not
>> excuted as failed to load true-type fonts.
>> Because direct keyboard input is not allowed, indirect and incomplete
>> copy-paste input is only available.
> 
> Yes, XIM should work with cairo (or any of the graphics backends, as long as 
> the window server backend is x11). However, it looks like I broke XIM support 
> over a year ago. :-( I just committed a fix for now: 
> 
>       * Source/x11/XIMInputServer.m: Add the setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") call
>       back that I removed last year (r35152).
> 
>       I tested the fcitx input method, and without the setlocale call,
>       XOpenIM would fail. I'm not sure what the best plan is in the long
>       term, I wanted to avoid calling setlocale from the core frameworks
>       but in this case xlib seems to require it.
> 
> To test gnustep with fcitx, I ran:
> 
> export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx
> 
> in my shell before launching Ink, and then was able to press ctrl+space to 
> enter Chinese characters.
> 
> Could you try doing an svn update on core/back and see if the fix works for 
> you?
> 
> Cheers,
> Eric
> 
 Dear Eric,

 Thank you for your work.
 Sorry to late reply as testing took some time.
 Previously referred XIMs (ibus, scim, uim, fcitx) worked well after
gnustep-back update.
 Not all applications were not tested but applications of which main
work is text-input such as Ink, Typewriter, ProjectCenter, Gorm, GNUMail
AddressManager were tested. Especially Gorm for resources localizing
tool was so necessary that it is good to work.
 Thanks again.

 Lee, Seong-Gu ( gmail dot com )

PS) Additonally in my opinion as non-developer about FIXME, it had
better leave with X system because resetting locale might affect other
applications.